Chapter 18 – The Victorians Meet the Modern (1880-1917)
Social & Cultural Trends of the Late 19th & Early 20th Century
Ch. 18 HW - Due Friday 1/13
- Get textbook & read assigned section
- Take notes on terms from text reading
and relevant additional on-line
research
- Discuss analysis question with others
assigned the same topic on block day
- Write a paragraph answering synthesis
question below your notes.
- Participate in a Q & A on Friday
All members of your group should
be ready to answer questions
about all assigned terms, analysis
question & images in front of the
rest of class on Friday. Do not
“divide up” information. Your
notes will be collected on Friday.
Group 1: Read pages
561-563
Terms: High Schools,
Technical Schools,
Liberal Arts Schools,
Tuskegee Institute,
Women’s Colleges
Analysis Question: How
did education in America
change during the late
19th Century?
Synthesis Question: What
impacts do we still see
from this today?
Group 2: Read pages 564-567
Terms: YMCA, “Muscular
Christianity”, National League
Baseball, Company Teams, Negro
Leagues, College & Professional
Football
Analysis Question: How did the growing
popularity of sports reflect the larger
economic and social trends of the late
19th Century?
Synthesis Question: What impacts do
we still see from this today?
Group 3: Read pages 567-570
Terms: Gibson Girl, Bicycling &
Camping, National Park Service,
US Forest Service, John Muir,
Sierra Club
Analysis Question: What factors
led to the increased popularity
of outdoor recreation in the late
19th Century?
Synthesis Question: What
impacts do we still see from this
today?
Group 4: Read pages 579-581
Terms: Natural Selection, William Graham Sumner, Eugenics, Theodore Dreiser, Lyman Abbott, Frank Ward
Analysis Question: Why was Social Darwinism a popular philosophy in late 19th Century America and what debates did this spark?
Synthesis Question: What impacts do we still see from this today?
Group 5: Read pages 582-587
Terms: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, “Ash Can School”, 1913 Amory Show,
“Americanization” of Jews & Catholics, Social Gospel, Salvation Army,
Fundamentalism
Analysis Question: How did literary & religious trends of the late 19th Century reflect
larger social & economic changes of the period?
Synthesis Question: What impacts do we still see from this today?