What was the settlement house movement Apush?

New Immigrants

• Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe in a recognizable wave of immigration. Barely any Chinese because of the Chinese Exclusion Act still in effect. 

settlement houses

• Run by middle-class American women providing housing, food, education, child care, cultural activities, and social connections for the New Immigrants. 

liberal Protestants

• Members of a branch of Protestantism who encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass not see it as a scientific or historical truth. Many became active in social gospel. 

Tuskegee Institute

• Led by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama and focused on training young blacks in agriculture and trades to help them with economic independence. 

land-grant colleges

• Colleges and universities established on public land through the Morrill Act and the Hatch Act which helped fuel the boom in higher education. 

pragmatism

• American philosophy build around the theory that the true value of an idea lay in its ability to solve problems. John Dewey was among some of the best known purveyors of pragmatism. 

yellow journalism

• Scandal-mongering practice of journalism between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Refers to sensationalist journalism practiced with unethical, unprofessional standards. 

National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

• Organization founded in demand for the vote for women saying that women should be able to vote since their responsibilities in the home and daily make them indispensable in the public decision process. Women were later given the right to vote in the nineteenth amendment.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

• Founded to fight against the evils of excessive alcohol consumption, and they also fought for to abolish prostitution and for women to vote later granted in the nineteenth amendment. 

realism

• Movement in European and American literature and the arts that wanted to show contemporary life and society as it actually was. Mark Twain and Henry James took this to new heights. 

naturalism

• A bran off of realism to apply detached scientific objectivity to the study of human characters that were shaped by degenerate heredity and extreme social environments. 

regionalism

• Wanted to capture the peculiarities of local ways of life before the wave of industrial standardization. Mark Twain was among the people who popularized the legends of the Old West. 

City Beautiful Movement

• Movement of progressive architects and city planners who wanted to promote order, harmony, and virtue while improving upon the nation's new urban areas like new parks built by Fredrick Law Olmsted.

World's Colombian Exposition

• In Chicago were Americans saw a chance to claim a place among the would's most civilized societies. They honored art, architecture, and science; it was the high point of the City Beautiful Movement. 

DOCTOR. Born in MA, earned PHD at Harvard, the first of his race to achieve that goal. (THE HONOR, I ASSURE YOU, WAS HARVARDS). He demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic, and helped found the national association for the advancement of colored people in 1910. (NAACP),
He rejected booker t washington’s gradualism and separatism, he demanded that the talented tenth of the black community be given full and immediate access to the mainstream of American life

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  A photograph showing early leaders of the settlement house movement, ca. 1900s.

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  A map of ethnic groups in a Chicago neighborhood served by Hull House, 1895.

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  Excerpts from a weekly schedule of lectures, clubs, and classes at Hull House in Chicago, 1892.

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  Excerpts from The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, written by “residents and associates” of South End House in Boston, 1898.

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  A fundraising brochure for the Los Angeles Settlement House, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Los Angeles, ca. 1910s.

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  Excerpts from the 1920 Annual Report of the Unity Settlement Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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  A photograph of a group outside Palama Settlement in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1909.

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  A photograph by Lewis Hine of the singing class at Hull House in Chicago, 1910.

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  A photograph of a citizenship class held at Neighborhood House in Louisville, Kentucky, ca. 1930s.

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  A photograph of a group of girls in gym class at Settlement Home in Atlanta, Georgia, 1903.

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  A photograph of children reading in the Mulberry Settlement House library, New York City, 1920.

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  A page featuring photographs of the play facilities and children served by Social Settlement in Washington, DC, 1905.

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  A photograph of a settlement house kindergarten in Chicago, Illinois, 1901.

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  A photograph of a group of adults and children outside Brownson House in Los Angeles, California, 1919.

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  A photograph of the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House football team, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1929.