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Chapter 20: Intellectual and Cultural Trends

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	Population growth and better education created a greater demand for printed matter.    True  False

	Before the Civil War, both Harper's and Atlantic Monthly were magazines that specialized in exposing and attacking political corruption and economic exploitation.    True  False

	By 1870, most state colleges in America had begun to establish graduate programs similar to those modeled by German universities.    True  False

	The new social science in late nineteenth-century America devoted much effort to the study of political, social, and economic institutions and the relationship among them.    True  False

	Those in the institutional school of economics, like Richard Ely, believed that invariable natural laws governed the economy and should not be interfered with.    True  False

	Political scientist Woodrow Wilson believed that America's political system was always undergoing change, and that it should.    True  False

	The late nineteenth-century theory of the Teutonic origins of democracy was often used to justify immigration restriction and black segregation laws.    True  False

	At the beginning of the Gilded Age, most American literature continued to be dominated by romanticism.    True  False

	By 1880, realism was the point of view of the finest literary talent in the U.S., though the romantic novel had not disappeared.    True  False

	The works of late nineteenth-century realist painter Thomas Eakins revealed his fascination with the scientific spirit of the age.    True  False

	Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection seriously weakened the fervor and faith of late nineteenth-century American religious fundamentalists.    True  False

	The philosophy of pragmatism argues that truth is relative and that the worth of an idea is determined by its application.    True  False

	Pragmatism inspired much of the reform spirit of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.    True  False

	Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's generous contributions enabled the founding of the University of Chicago.    True  False

	Late nineteenth-century American artists found ample public interest in their work and had some success getting private financial support for it.    True  False

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