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60 Cards in this Set
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Louis Sullivan
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perfected the sky skrapers of Chicago in 1885
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Sister Carrie
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written by Theordore Dresiser
- woman's escapafe and dazzling and attractive city |
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Sears and Montgomery Ward
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made cheap and easily produced goods
- thrown away easily |
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dumbbell tenements
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worst of the slums
- cramped, poor santitation |
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Walter Rauschenbush
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preached the " social gospel"
- insisted that churches tackle slums and poverty |
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Washington Gladden
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- preached the "social gospe"
insisted that churches tackle slums and poverty |
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Jane Addam
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- found Hull House in 1889
- for immigrants - taught adults and cildren necessary skilss |
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Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlemnt
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- helped immigrans
- opened in 1893 |
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Florence Kelley
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- fought for women workers and against child labor
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American Protective Association (APA)
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- anti- foreign organization
- against new immigration |
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Dwight Lyma Moody
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- proclaimed gospel of kindness and foregiveness
-- founded the Moody Bible Institute |
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Moody Bible Institute
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- founded by Dwight Lyman Moody
-founded in 1889 |
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Cardinal Gibbons
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- preached American unity
- popular with catholic and protestants |
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Salvation Aermy
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relgion founed in 1890 tied to help poor
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Church of Christ, Scientists
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founded by Mary Barker Eddy
- Christianity heals sickness |
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Charles Darwin
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- published One the Origin of Species
- talked about evolution |
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Modernists
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- broke from fundamnetalists and refused to believe that the Bible was completely accurate
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Robert G. Ingersoll
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- denounced creation
- believed in evolution |
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Chautauqua Movement
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- adult school
- public lectures |
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Booker T. Washington
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formed Tuskegee trade school in Alabama
- avoided social equality |
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George Washington Carver
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scientists who cultivated penuts
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W.E.B. DuBois
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-first black to get a Ph. D from Harvard University
- founded the NAACP |
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Black Colleges
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- emerged after the civil war
- Howard University, Atlanta Universtiy, Hampton University |
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Morrill Act of 1862
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provide grants to build public schools
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Hatch Act of 1887
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provide federal fund for the stablishment of agricultural experiemtns statins in connection with lan- grant colleges
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Johns Hopkins University
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- nation's first high- grad graduate school
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Dr. Charles W. Elliot
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- launched college elective system
- president of Harvard |
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William James
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- established behavioral pyscology
- wrote, " The Principles of Psycology" and " the Will to believe" and " varietitis of Religious Experience |
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Pragamtism
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- book written by William James
- everything has a purpose |
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Library of Congres
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- brought literature in people's homes
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Linotype
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- invented in 1885
- progressed print and yellow journalism |
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yellow journalism
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newspaper reports scandals, sex, and outrageous stories
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Joseph Pulitzer
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jouranlist tycoon
- "New York World" |
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Randloph Hearst
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-journalist tycoon
- "San Francisco Examiner" |
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Associated Press
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- established in 1840
- curbed bad journalism |
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New York Nation
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- launched by Edwin L. Godkin
- infleuntial magazine |
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Henry George
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wrote " Progress and Poverty"
- association poverty will progres - invented graduated income tax |
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Edward Bellamy
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- published " Looking Backward" in 1888
- criticizes social injustices |
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dime novels
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- cheap novels which depicted the wild west and other romantic settings
- many written by Harland F. Halsey |
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General Lewis Walace
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wrote " Ben Hur: A tale of the Christ"
- combated Darwinsim |
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Horatio Alger
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- wrote books about virtue honesty,
- rewarded with success and wealth |
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Walt Whitman
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published Leaves of Grass
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Emily Dickinson
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hermit poet
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Sidney Lanier
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- author oppressed by poverty and poor health
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Kate Chopin
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- wrote about adultery, suicide, women ambitions
wrote " The Awakening" |
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Mark Twain
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- romantic type literature with comedy
- captured the frontier relaism and coined " the Gilded Age" |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- feminist prophet during the late 19th and early 20th century
- tried to get women into the work force |
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Megalopolis
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citis in America grew rapidly post Civi War
- Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York had passed the million mark |
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nativism
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- hate immigrants and have much patriotism
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philanthropy
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- when wealth millionaires give back the money they have earned to society
- build colleges, and music halls |
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Yellow journalism
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- Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
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New immigration
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- from eastern and southern europe
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Social gospel
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preached to many people in the 1880s
churches helped the poor |
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settlement House
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house where immigratns came to live upon entering the U.S
- centers of reform in womens' labor |
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Chautauqua movemnts
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- adult education
- public lectures |
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
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organized in 1874 whit ribbon was the symbol of purity
- was for prohibition |
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Eighteenth Amendment
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in 191 this amendment did way with all liquor making it illegal
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Ida B. Wells
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- worked toward better treatment for Blacks and foremd the National Association of Colored Women in 1896
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National Prohibition Party
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- called for prohibtion in 1869
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James Naismith
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invented baseball in 1891
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