ISSUES TO UNDERSTAND
After reading the chapter, you should be able to discuss the following:
1. The impact of industrialization on the standard of living
for
Americans of various social classes
2. How new products were introduced to rural and small-town
America
3. The effects of industrialization and the growth of big
corporations
on the American class structure
4. Ways in which income and social class affected family patterns
5. The Victorian worldview and the genteel tradition; what they
were, who upheld them, and who
criticized them
6. The role assigned to women in the Victorian worldview
7. Higher education in the period 1860-1900; whom it catered
to and the changes it was
going through
8. The chief types of recreation enjoyed by the working class
9. The writers, artists, and architects who broke with the
Victorian
genteel tradition; why and how they did
10. The new woman; who she was and how she differed from the Victorian
lady
11. Why public education became an arena of class conflict; what was
accomplished in the
area of public schooling
12. The ways in which working- and middle-class cultures differed in
the period 1860-1900; which culture
proved more enduring and why
IDENTIFICATIONS
After reading Chapter 20, you should be able to identify and explain the significance of each of the following:
John Harvey Kellogg and Charles W. Post
Aaron Montgomery Ward and Richard Warren Sears
F. W. Woolworth
Victorian morality
Henry Ward Beecher
Catharine Beecher, The American Woman 's Home
cult of domesticity and "the woman 's sphere"
Rowland H. Macy, John Wanamaker, and Marshall Field
Charles W. Eliot
Andrew D. White
New York Knickerbockers and Cincinnati Red Stockings
John L. Sullivan
Scott Joplin and ragtime
the new woman
Charles Eliot Norton, Richard Watson Gilder, E. L. Godkin, and genteel
culture
Henry James
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhome Clemens)
Sarah Ome Jewett and the regionalists
Stephen Crane and the naturalists
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Frank Uoyd Wright
Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder
Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
“Gibson Girls”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
William Torrey Harris
Creoles, Cajuns, Storyville, and Dixieland Jazz