Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

APUSH Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 Homework Questions from Pageant

Big Question: Did the development of American cities justify Jefferson’s claim that “when we get piled up in great cities we will become as corrupt as Europe”?

1. Why did people move from the farm to the city in the late 1800s? What would you characterize as the PRIMARY reason? 2. How did city environments adapt to the increased number of people, which resulted from this migration to the city? 3. Who were the “new immigrants”? How were they similar/different in comparison to the “old immigrants“? 4. What was the attitude of city politicians towards the new immigrants? Compare and contrast this to the attitudes of progressive wealthy college-education women such as Jane Adams. How did working class and non-unionized unskilled laborers react to the new immigrants? 5. How did churches vary greatly in their response to urban challenges? 6. How did Darwinists provoke arguments between Modernists and Fundamentalists? 7. What were the three most significant changes to education in American from 1865 to 1900 based on your analysis? Why? 8. How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois’s strategies for “Black American progress” conflict with each other? (This relates to DBQ packet you will be analyzing so be sure to spend time reviewing this question.) 9. How did Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst permanently modify the concept of what a newspaper was? Why were they so influential in their ideas? 10. How did women’s position in society change as the 1800s ended? What vehicle of reform did women choose to finally gain access to potential equality in the U.S.?

Key People and Terms liberal Protestants National American Woman Suffrage Assoc Tuskegee Institute Woman’s Christian Temperance Union land-grant colleges World’s Columbian Exposition pragmatism Carrie Chapman Catt

For Your Information- Past AP essays on this area of study 1982 Americans have been highly mobile people. Describe and account for the dominant population movements between 1820 and 1900. 1975 “Major American writers have been indifferent to the social problems of their day.” State whether you agree or disagree with this generalization and defend your position with reference to THREE novelists and or poets. 1989 Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877–1915, assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed.