late 19 th century social change in america
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Late 19 th Century Social Change in America. Urbanization. Inventions Transportation Shopping & Entertainment Living Conditions Jacob Riis– How the Other Half Lives Sanitation Communities Religious Responses Social Gospel Mary Baker Eddy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Late 19th Century Social Change in America
UrbanizationInventionsTransportationShopping & EntertainmentLiving Conditions
Jacob Riis– How the Other Half Lives SanitationCommunitiesReligious Responses
Social GospelMary Baker EddyChristian Relief Organizations– YMCA, Salvation Army
Women at workLiterature
“New” ImmigrationWhere?
Southern & Eastern EuropeAsia
Why?Economic opportunityUnemploymentFreedom from religious persecutionFreedom from harsh political rule
“New” ImmigrationCharacteristics:
Unskilled laborers– factory & RR workersPoverty-strickenUrban dwellersPreservation of traditional cultureMore skilled or educated, more upwardly
mobile
“New” ImmigrationResponses & Reactions
Political machinesSocial Gospel (Walter Rauschenbusch)Settlement Houses
Jane Addams– Hull House– Chicago Lillian Wald– Henry Street– NY Florence Kelley– National Consumers League
Nativism American Protective Association Fear of socialist ideology
“New” ImmigrationResponses & Reactions
Chinese Immigrants:Denis KearneyChinese Exclusion ActU.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark
“Undesirables”
Challenges to Traditional ThoughtDarwin’s On the Origin of Species & The
Descent of ManPsychology– id, ego, superego
Man as irrational and instinctualResponses:
FundamentalistsAccommodationists or modernists
Facts vs. Values
Educational ChangeState-funded compulsory educationWomen’s collegesMorrill Act of 1862
Land grant collegesHatch Act
Agricultural experiment stations
New MoralityChanging attitudes
Women’s RolesComstock Laws– Reaction
TemperanceDemon RumNational Prohibition PartyWCTU– Frances WillardCarrie NationAnti-Saloon LeagueDry states
Women’s RolesCharlotte Perkins Gilman– economic
independenceSocial Reform MovementsPolitical Reform Movements
National American Woman Suffrage Association Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt Linked vote to traditional roles West– greater equality for women
Married women’s property rights