Late 19 th Century Social Change in America

Late 19th 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 • Christian Relief Organizations– YMCA, Salvation Army • Women at work • Literature

“New” Immigration • Where? • Southern & Eastern Europe • Asia • Why? • Economic opportunity • Unemployment • Freedom from religious persecution • Freedom from harsh political rule

“New” Immigration • Characteristics: • Unskilled laborers– factory & RR workers • Poverty-stricken • Urban dwellers • Preservation of traditional culture • More skilled or educated, more upwardly mobile

“New” Immigration • Responses & Reactions • Political machines • Social 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” Immigration • Responses & Reactions • Chinese Immigrants: • Denis Kearney • Chinese Exclusion Act • U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark • “Undesirables”

Challenges to Traditional Thought • Darwin’s On the Origin of Species & The Descent of Man • Psychology– id, ego, superego • Man as irrational and instinctual • Responses: • Fundamentalists • Accommodationists or modernists • Facts vs. Values

Educational Change • State-funded compulsory education • Women’s colleges • Morrill Act of 1862 • Land grant colleges • Hatch Act • Agricultural experiment stations

New Morality • Changing attitudes • Women’s Roles • Comstock Laws– Reaction • Temperance • Demon Rum • National Prohibition Party • WCTU– Frances Willard • Carrie Nation • Anti-Saloon League • Dry states

Women’s Roles • Charlotte Perkins Gilman– economic independence • Social Reform Movements • Political 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

Late 19 th Century Social Change in America

Late 19 th Century Social Change in America

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Women in the Late-19 th Century

European Politics, Late 19 th Century

America in the 19 th Century

Latin America in the 19 th Century

Realism and Feminism in late 19 th Century

Chp 18 Politics of Late 19 th century America

Latin America in the 19 th Century

Land uses in Australia, late 18 th century – mid 19 th century

Late 19 th Century

Immigration in the late 19 th Century

Black Stereotypes in 19 th Century America

Latin America in the 19 th Century

Utopian Visions in 19 th Century America

Education in the Late 19 th Century

Political Reform in the late 19 th Century

Late 19 th Century Funerals

Industrial America in the Late 19 th Century

19 th Century Social Reforms

LATE 19 TH CENTURY THEATRE

19 th century America