Ch. 25: Urban Migration

Harvard

introduced electives to accommodate the teaching of modern languages and the sciences.

Johns Hopkins University

was founded in 1876 as the first American institution to specialize in advanced graduate studies; followed the model of German Universities; produced the first generation of scholars who could compete with the intellectual achievements of Europeans (Law school, masters, etc .)

Victoria Woodhull

Proclaimed belief in free love (relationships outside of marriage, same gender); worked for feminism and PUblished radical magazine; a MAVERICK (Revolutionary, a Rebel)- most women do not support her.

Margaret Sanger

Opened the first birth control clinic in US history.

Morill and Hatch Acts

helped create over 100 colleges and universities in US.

Accommodationists

reconciled Darwinism with Christianity; did not accept Bible (in its entirety) as history or science { wanted to keep people in church }.

Settlement house movement

Driven by young idealistic well educated women and men of the middle class; overwhelmingly young women.

Progress in Poverty by Henry George:

Points out the alarming inequalities of wealth in industrial age and he believed that land became too expensive; growing population increased land values and average american couldnt afford land; solution= 100 % tax on the sale of land (0 % profit when you sell your land) → wealthy drive up value of land.

New morality

greater freedom in sexuality (brought about in party womens greater economic freedom)

Segregation and Racism within movements

White women restricted Black women from their suffrage and racial groups.

Fundamentalists

literal interpretation of Bible.

Granger Laws

States have no authority over interstate commerce.

Anthony Comstock

Campaigned against "immorality"; Used 1873 Comstock Law to confiscate and destroy sexuality explicit pictures, books, and magazines, including info about birth control.

Social Darwinists

believed that new immigrants were biologically inferior to old stock.