During the Civil War, wooden
ships were no match for what new weapon?

A cannon.

Explanation: Cannons were powerful yet took a while to reload so a 10 pound big iron ball being shot out of a cannon a great speeds the wood would have been  no match.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.