US 10-3 Section Quiz 10-3

entertainment adapted from French theater

• vaudeville
• individualism
• Cincinnati Red Stockings

belief that a person could rise in society, and go as far as their talents and commitment would take them

• vaudeville
• individualism
• Cincinnati Red Stockings

first salaried baseball team, formed in 1869

• vaudeville
• individualism
• Cincinnati Red Stockings

realistic writer who wrote The Age of Innocence, a stark portrait of upper-class New York society

• Edith Wharton
• Horatio Alger

wrote “rags-to-riches” novels

• Edith Wharton
• Horatio Alger

The ideas of philosopher Herbert Spencer and others applied Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection to human society and was called

• Social Darwinism.
• Realism.
• Darwin’s Followers.
• Human Society Theory.

By calling their era the Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Warner were sounding

• a plea for individualism.
• a warning against realism.
• an alarm that beneath the surface lay corruption.
• a cry for voter’s rights.

The Gospel of Wealth was a philosophy that held that wealthy Americans were responsible for using their great fortunes for social progress, or for engaging in

• gentility.
• culture.
• laissez-faire.
• philanthropy.

Just as Darwin had looked at the natural world scientifically, a new movement in art and literature moved away from romanticism and was called

• Darwinism.
• realism.
• modernism.
• traditionalism.

Popular culture changed in the late 1800s because industrialization improved the standard of living for many people, enabling them to spend money on

• entertainment and recreation.
• travel abroad.
• clothing.
• houses.