1. Chapter 15 “Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life”
Section 4 “Ideas for Reform”

2. 1) How did different movements help the needy?
New York Charity Organization Society (COS) tried to make charity a scientific enterprise by keeping detailed files
the social gospel movement focused on charity and justice- labor reforms
the settlement movement: settled into a house in the midst of a poor neighborhood (Hull House)

3. 2) How and where did sociology develop?
scholars in America and Europe were developing a scientific way of looking at how people lived

4. 3) What efforts were made to control immigration and personal behavior in the late 1800s?
Chinese Exclusion Act teaching of only American culture and the English language in schools demanded tighter rules on citizenship and employment literacy tests Prohibition Purity crusaders

5. 4) What is the purpose of sociology?
collects data on societies, and measures the data against theories of human behavior.

6. 5) What were the goals of nativist movements?
By controlling immigrants, they hoped to restore what they believed had been a past of purity and virtue.

7. How did temperance groups and purity crusaders differ from charity social gospel, and settlement movements?

8. 5) How might the anti-immigrant arguments of wealthy nativists have differed from those less-affluent nativists?

9. What were two possible reasons for people to oppose purity crusaders?

10. Review: Prepare your response cards

11. The main goal of the settlement movement was to
a. end immigration. c. improve conditions for the poor.
b. help settlers in the West. d. fight political corruption

12. c. improve conditions for the poor.

13. Nativist groups supported
a. policies favoring Native Americans.
b. favoring the unions over big business.
c. favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
d. increased immigration from Europe and Asia.

14. c. favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.

15. Purity crusaders fought to eliminate
a. vice. C. union
b. pollution. D. churches

16. a. vice.

17. The main goal of the temperance movement was to
a. moderate alcohol consumption. c. eliminate alcohol consumption
b. repeal Prohibition. D. legalize alcohol consumption

18. c. eliminate alcohol consumption

19. True/False
The social gospel movement sought to apply the gospel (teachings) of Jesus directly to society

20. True

21. True/False
In the 1850s, the Know-Nothing Party had gained many followers by vowing to increase immigration.

22. False

23. True/False
Prohibition groups also opposed drinking because of what they saw as the links among saloons, immigrants, and political bosses

24. True