WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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a reform movement by Christians to help the poor and receive salvation.
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the invention of the internal combustion engine fueled by gasoline improved transportation.
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allowed immigrants to enter the U.S. via ports of entry in New York.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sheldon was part of the Social Gospel movement, an effort among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral, and social conditions of the urban poor. The rapid urbanization of the late 1800s and early 1900s had overwhelmed the infrastructure of American cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -noun. 1. : the application of Christian principles to social problems. capitalized S&G : a movement in American Protestant Christianity especially in the first part of the 20th century to bring the social order into conformity with Christian principles.
Detailed explanation-4: -His ministry built upon the social gospel of the Protestant church at the turn of the twentieth century and his own family’s practice of preaching on the social conditions of parishioners. The early social gospel movement emerged during the rapidly industrializing American society following the Civil War.