HUM 2250 Exam 1 Study Guide
progressivism - ANSWER improvement of the general public through government-based
economic central planning and regulation of the markets
laissez-faire - ANSWER abstention by governments from interfering with the workings of
the free market
Old Wave vs. New Wave Immigrants - ANSWER Old Wave: -arrived before 1880
-middle class northwest europeans
-protestant
-respectable wealth
New Wave: -southern/eastern europe
-catholic, eastern orthodox, jewish
-very poor
Nativism - ANSWER Belief that foreigners pose a serious danger to one's own native
society and culture
eugenics - ANSWER improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase
the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
muckrakers - ANSWER Investigative journalists, photographers who showed horrible
living and working conditions of the poor
mutual aid societies - ANSWER - Immigrants could go for help, education, literacy, day
cares
- Previous immigrants could help new immigrants
Jacob Riis - ANSWER Wrote "how the other half lives" to expose injustice to the upper
and middle classes
new realism - ANSWER expressed the social issues of the urban poor through the art of
the urban poor
industrialization - ANSWER the wide scale development of industries in a society
mechanization - ANSWER doing work increasingly with machines. devalued labor,
dehumanizing, monotonous work
urbanization - ANSWER the process of making areas more hospitable for mass
, quantities of people
tenements - ANSWER a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a
house or block of apartments
empiricism - ANSWER scientific approach based on close observation and collection of
data
true womanhood - ANSWER 19th century ideals defined by a pious, sexually pure, and
submissive attitude; preaching the "cult of domesticity"
rose schneiderman - ANSWER survivor of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire and
outspoken advocate for women's labor unions
jane addams - ANSWER womens rights advocate, suffragist, links community
involvement to traditional domestic roles, first woman to receive nobel peace prize
alice paul - ANSWER a more radical suffragist than addams; protests, hunger strikes
and marches; brought attention to the cause
emma goldman - ANSWER Critic of capitalism
Endorsed "free love"
Women are sexual partners not objects
Spoke out against marriages
Keep mouths shut and wombs open
charlotte gilman - ANSWER Radical
Women in economics
Not suitable for domestic responsibilities
Economic and sexual independence from men
Communal kitchens
Herland: Women able to procreate without men
Live in harmony
margaret walker - ANSWER black poet and writer prominent in the Chicago Black
renaissance (for my people)
margaret sanger - ANSWER Advocate for use of contraceptives
Sex education for women
Pushes for birth control
progressivism - ANSWER improvement of the general public through government-based
economic central planning and regulation of the markets
laissez-faire - ANSWER abstention by governments from interfering with the workings of
the free market
Old Wave vs. New Wave Immigrants - ANSWER Old Wave: -arrived before 1880
-middle class northwest europeans
-protestant
-respectable wealth
New Wave: -southern/eastern europe
-catholic, eastern orthodox, jewish
-very poor
Nativism - ANSWER Belief that foreigners pose a serious danger to one's own native
society and culture
eugenics - ANSWER improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase
the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
muckrakers - ANSWER Investigative journalists, photographers who showed horrible
living and working conditions of the poor
mutual aid societies - ANSWER - Immigrants could go for help, education, literacy, day
cares
- Previous immigrants could help new immigrants
Jacob Riis - ANSWER Wrote "how the other half lives" to expose injustice to the upper
and middle classes
new realism - ANSWER expressed the social issues of the urban poor through the art of
the urban poor
industrialization - ANSWER the wide scale development of industries in a society
mechanization - ANSWER doing work increasingly with machines. devalued labor,
dehumanizing, monotonous work
urbanization - ANSWER the process of making areas more hospitable for mass
, quantities of people
tenements - ANSWER a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a
house or block of apartments
empiricism - ANSWER scientific approach based on close observation and collection of
data
true womanhood - ANSWER 19th century ideals defined by a pious, sexually pure, and
submissive attitude; preaching the "cult of domesticity"
rose schneiderman - ANSWER survivor of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire and
outspoken advocate for women's labor unions
jane addams - ANSWER womens rights advocate, suffragist, links community
involvement to traditional domestic roles, first woman to receive nobel peace prize
alice paul - ANSWER a more radical suffragist than addams; protests, hunger strikes
and marches; brought attention to the cause
emma goldman - ANSWER Critic of capitalism
Endorsed "free love"
Women are sexual partners not objects
Spoke out against marriages
Keep mouths shut and wombs open
charlotte gilman - ANSWER Radical
Women in economics
Not suitable for domestic responsibilities
Economic and sexual independence from men
Communal kitchens
Herland: Women able to procreate without men
Live in harmony
margaret walker - ANSWER black poet and writer prominent in the Chicago Black
renaissance (for my people)
margaret sanger - ANSWER Advocate for use of contraceptives
Sex education for women
Pushes for birth control
