Chapter 20 Study Questions
1. How did improvements in public education effect older people?
2. Who was John H. Vincent?
3. What was the Chautauqua movement?
4. What was the "college outlook?"
5. What did a two week session at Lake Chautauqua cost around 1874?
6. What did the Chautauqua movement offer?
7. How did the fortunes of libraries improve in the late nineteenth century?
8. How did newspapers change in the late nineteenth century?
9. What was the web press?
10. What was the Linotype?
11. How did the telegraph affect newspapers?
12. What was the Associated Press?
13. Who were Jay Gould and George Hearst and how did they affect newspapers?
14. Who were Edward W. Scripps, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
15. Who owned the New York World and New York Journal?
16. How did magazine change in the late nineteenth century?
17. What did Harpers, The Century and the Atlantic Monthly have in common?
18. What was new about the Ladies' Home Journal, 1889
19. How did colleges and universities change in the late nineteenth century?
20. What was the The Morrill Act of 1862?
21. What did Leland Stanford, John Hopkins and John D. Rockefeller have in common regarding education.
22. What changes did college make in curriculum?
23. Who was Henry Adams? How did he change education?
24. What are professional schools and how did they change universities?
25. What are electives? How did they change education?
26. Who were Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey and Frederick Jackson Turner?
27. How did education for women change in the late nineteenth century?
28. What were the land grant colleges? How were they different from traditional college and universities?
29. What were the "The Seven Sisters?" What careers could women train for at college?
30. How did the "Seven Sisters" affecr women?
31. Who was Josiah Willard Gibbs?
32. Who was Albert A. Michelson?
33. Did evolution effect thought? How did it effect the Social Sciences?
34. What was the "classical school?"
35. What was Social Darwinism?
36. What was the Institutionalist School of Economics?
37. How did the theory of evolution affect religious thought?
38. What was the Pragmatic approach?
39. What was How to Make Our Ideas Clear?
40. Who was Herbert Spencer?
41. Who was William James? What was Great Men and Their Environment? What was The Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy?
42. What was progressive education?
43. Who was John Dewey? What did he believe was the purpose of education?
44. What was importance The Common Law?
45. Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
46. Who was Frederick Jackson Turner and what was the frontier thesis?
47. What was realism in literature? How did this include Mark Twain and William Dean Howells?
48. What was The Rise of Silas Lapham?