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Chapter 3, Section 4: Early Reforms in a Gilded Age! Read Section 4 on pages 264-270 and answer the following!

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U.S. History! ECRCHS! Lundgren!

1. Why did Mark Twain and Charles Warner refer to the period between 1870 and 1900 as the Gilded Age?!

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2. What is individualism? !

3. What is Social Darwinism? Who rst proposed the idea?!

4. Why did industrialists embrace the idea of Social Darwinism?!

5. What is Gospel of Wealth? !

6. What is Realism?!

7. How did industrialization lead to the rise of popular culture? What did people spend their free time doing?!

8. What did George, Ward, and Bellamy write about?!

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9. What is the Social Gospel movement?!

10. What is the Salvation Army?!

11. What is the YMCA? Who was their founder?!

12. What are settlement houses? Describe the Hull House.!

13. What is Americanization? How did schools help with this process?!

14. Why was Americanization viewed as a problem?!

15. Who is Booker T. Washington?