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The New Immigration
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But by the 1880s and
1890s, this shifted to the Baltic and Slavic people of southeastern Europe, who were basically the opposite, “New Immigration.” |
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Mary Baker Eddy
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The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science), founded by
Mary Baker Eddy, preached a perversion of Christianity that she claimed healed sickness. |
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Booker T. Washington
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The South, war-torn and poor, lagged far behind in education,
especially for Blacks, so Booker T. Washington, an ex-slave came to help. He started by heading a black normal (teacher) and industrial school in Tuskegee, Alabama, and teaching the students useful skills and trades. |
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W.E.B. DuBois
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W.E.B. Du Bois, the first Black to get a Ph.D. from
Harvard University, demanded complete equality for Blacks and action now. He also founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910. Many of DuBois’s differences with Washington reflected the contrasting life experiences of southern and northern Blacks. |
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The New Morality
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reflected sexual freedom in the
increase of birth control, divorces, and frank discussion of sexual topics. |
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Social Darwinism
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seeking to apply the principles of Darwinian evolution to sociology and politics. It especially refers to notions of struggle for existence being used to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. The most prominent form of such views stressed competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism but it is also connected to the ideas of eugenics, scientific racism
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Gospel of Wealth
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"the Richest man in the World," is an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. The central thesis of Carnegie's essay was the peril of allowing large sums of money to be passed into the hands of persons or organizations ill-equipped mentally or emotionally to cope with them. As a result, the wealthy entrepreneur must assume the responsibility of distributing his fortune in a way that it will be put to good use, and not wasted on frivolous expenditure. In this he represented a captain of industry who had risen to power by his own hand and refused to worship.
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Joseph Pulitzer/William R. Hearst
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“yellow journalism,” in which newspapers
reported on wild and fantastic stories that often were false or quite exaggerated: sex, scandal, and other human-interest stories. Two new journalistic tycoons emerged: Joseph Pulitzer (New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (San Francisco Examiner, et al.). |
