Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________
APUS: Chapter 25B
pp. 578 – 593
1) Why did Carnegie donate $60M to libraries? Which of his beliefs spurred this donation?
2) What new themes were catching on in the late 1800s?
3) Describe “Yellow Journalism” and its appeal to the American masses.
4) Which were the “Apostles of Reform?” What was their message, or what were their messages?
5) How did Henry George propose to deal with the question of poverty in Progress and Poverty?
6) Why didn’t the “single tax” idea take off?
7) What were the themes of postwar novels?
8) Who were the major authors, and what were their topics/foci?
9) On a separate sheet of paper, write the author, novel title, and summary/message/theme of each of the following:
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Bret Harte: The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat
William Dean Howells: A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes
Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Henry Adams:
Henry James: Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady
Jack London: The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel
Frank Norris: The Octopus
Paul Laurance Dunbar: Lyrics of Lowly Life
Charles W. Chestnutt: The Conjecture Women
10) Describe the New Morality as preached by Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin.
11) What was the reaction as portrayed by Anthony Comstock?
12) What was life like for an urban family during the late 19th century?
13) Describe the women’s’ movement as it evolved during the late 1800s.
14) Who were the new leaders of the women’s movement, and what were their goals?
15) Describe the Prohibition movement, its leaders and motivation.
16) Describe American art as it was emerging in the last decades of the 19th century.
17) What were the new “amusements” of this era?