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01/30/2011

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AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
Definition

created in 1887

 

1 million members

 

anti-foreign organization

 

natavist

 

no ROMAN CATHOLICS in office

 

hated new imigrants

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HULL HOUSE
Definition

settlement house

 

chicago slums 

 

model for womens involvement in urban social reforem

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SOCIAL GOSPEL MOVEMENT
Definition
religious doctrines preached by those who believed the churches should directly address economic and social problems
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WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH
Definition

leading protestant advoater of the "social gospel"

 

tried to make christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems

 

pastor of german baptist church in NYC

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WASHINGTON GLADDEN
Definition

PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN WHO SAUGHT TO APPLY THE LESSONS OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE SLUMS AND FACTORIES

 

TOOK OVER A CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN COLUMBUS OHIO IN 1882

 

PREACHED SOCIAL GOSPEL

 

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FUNDAMENTALISTS
Definition

split over the theory of evolution:

 

literal interpretation of the bible and reject darwin and his ideas

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MODERNISTS
Definition

split because of the theory of evolution:

 

accepted darwins theory by being able to reconcile genesis and evolution

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CHAUTAQUA MOVEMENT
Definition

movement launched in 1874 fighting for benefits in public school

 

lead to nation wide public lectures and offering home study

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BOOKER T WASHINGTON
Definition

former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks

 

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Definition

thanks to booker was able to teach and research and eventually become a famous agricultural chemist

 

slave born

 

boosted southern economy by finding hundreds of new uses for peanuts 

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DR. WEB DUBOIS
Definition

harvard educated scholar

 

advocate of full black social and economic equality through leadership of a "talented tenth"

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BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN
Definition
site of major US army defeat in the Sioux war of 1876-1877
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CHEIF JOSEPH
Definition
leader of the Nez Perce tribe who conducted a brilliant but unsuccessful military campaign in 1877
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DAWES ACT
Definition
federal law that attempted to disolve tribal landholding and establish indians as individual farmers
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WOUNDED KNEE 1890
Definition
the battle when the "ghost dance" cult spread to the dakota suiox and the violence killed 200 men, women, and children and 29 soldiers
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A CENTURY OF DISHONOR
Definition

book written by helen hunt jacskon

 

pricking the moral state of americans

 

the book chronicled the sorry reccord of the gov't ruthlessness and chicanery in dealing with the indians

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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY (GRANGE)
Definition

farmers organization

 

wanted to enhance the lives of isolated framers through social, educational, and fraternal activities

 

claimed 800,000 members in 8 years

 

created their own stores to escape trusts

 

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GOLD BUGS
Definition
popular term for those who favored the "status quo" in metal money and opposed the pro-silver bryanites in 1896
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CROSS OF GOLD SPEECH
Definition
spectacular convention speech by a young pro-silver advocate that brought him the democratic presidential nomination in 1896
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DINGLEY TARIFF
Definition

higher tariff created to please those who wanted more protection and complained that the willson-gorman tariff was to low

 

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