New Immigrants- Were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who were different from the immigrants from western Europe.
Settlement Houses- Were houses that provided housing, food, education, childcare, cultural activities, and social connections fro new arrivals to the United States, were run by middle-class native women.
Liberal Protestants- Encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass than believing that the Bible represented scientific or historical truth.
Tuskegee Institute- An institute that was led by Booker T. Washington that focused on training young black students in agriculture and the trades.
Land-Grant Colleges- Colleges and universities that were created from allocations of public land through the Morrell Act and the Hatch Act.
Pragmatism- The philosophy that revolved around the theory that the true value of an idea lay in its ability to solve problems.
Yellow Journalism- Was a scandal-mongering practice of journalism that started in New York during the Gilded Age between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)- An organization dedicated to get the right to vote for women.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)- Was founded to combat excessive alcohol consumption and campaigns to abolish prostitution and gain women the right to vote.
Realism- European and American literature and arts that focused on the real depiction of contemporary life and society.
Naturalism- Was a literary movement that applied detached scientific objectivity to the study human characters.
Regionalism- An artistic movement that focused on capturing the peculiarities of America's various region in modernization.
City Beautiful Movement- Was the movement among progressive architects and city planners who promoted order, harmony and virtue while making the nation's urban space beautiful.
World's Columbian Exposition- Held in Chicago as the World's Fair to honor art, architecture, and science.