USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920.

Detailed explanation-2: -A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation. (The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was a new type of “Social Gospel” that was taking hold in protestant churches. For Woodsworth the best way to help immigrants was assimilation. He said immigrants needed to be “Canadianized” and “Christianized” to improve their lot in their new county.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was a movement which applied Christian ethics to social problems especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality poverty crime alcoholismRacial tensions slums and clean environment child labor etc.