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29 Cards in this Set
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New Immigration
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1900s new immigrants pour into America cuz of hard economic times in Europe
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Streetcar Suburbs
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created to house middle class workers attempting to escape city problems. Close enough to commute to work in the city
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Tenements
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cheap run down apartments for the poor
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Anthony Comstock
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waged war on immorality - defends sexual puity, wants to remove obsene pictures from society
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Jane Adams, Hull House
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humanitarian reformer - esatblished half-way house for homeless children
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John Roebling
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built Brooklyn Bridge 1883 (first largest suspension bridge in America)
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Louis Sullivan
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America's first architects - functionalism
first person to build skyscrapers open schhol for architects |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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an archiect - buildings shoud have their own style and blend with its surroundings
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Aschan School
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group of painters - depicted inner city life
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Lieracy Tests
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limited immigration into the US - had to be able to read / write in English
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Chinese Exclusion Law 1882
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After Kearney terrorized the Chinese - Congress placed a 10 ear moratorium on Chinese immigration
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American Protection Association 1887
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common anti-foreign organization - sough nativist goals like immigration exclusion
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Chautauqua Movement, 1874
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4 year adult education program - teach illiterate adults how to read
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Charles Darwin
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1859, Origin of Species book supported science, rational though, evolution - conflicted with Catholic and Protestant teachings
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Social Darwinism
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"survival of fittest" applies to humans - gov't should not create programs for "lazy" poor
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Herbert Spencer
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Social Darwinism - coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"
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Henry Ward Beecher
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clergyman found no conflict between evolution theories and Christian principles
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Josiah Strong
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cleric, advocated imperialism, linked it to "survival of fittest" . America should build an over-seas empire. Christianity part of everyday life. sided with "labor" church was attractive social institution
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Lester F. Ward
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Dynamic Sociology - laws of nature could be changed by humans. Gov't needs to regulate big biz & prevent exploitation of our natural resources
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Russell Conwell
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followed Social Darwinism, wrote poem "Acres od Diamonds" - hard workers (rich) lazy (poor)
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Social Gospel
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movement that helped poor Salvation Army, YMCA, YWCA. YWCA helped rurl Americans (decent housing, rec facilities - mral improvement)
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Dwight L. Moody
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leading evangalist against modernism in Northeast
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Mary Baker Eddy
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founded Cristian Science - religion promotes mind over matter
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Henry George
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Progress and Poverty, book criticized unequal land distribution which led to dfiierences between social classes
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William James
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philosopher, wrote about pragmatism - truth came from everyday experiences
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Mark Twain
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Samuel Clemens, best known literary noveleist end of 19th century Huckleberry Finn, etc.
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Horatio Alger
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author, wrote 119 books in 20 years - rags to riches stories (material wealth leads to happiness)
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W.E.B. DuBois
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blach historian, civil rights activits - Niagara Civil Rigts movement and NAACP 1909; 1st black to earn PHd from Harvard - educated blacks must fight for equl rights. Opposed Booker T Washington's ideas
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Booker T. Washington
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Black educator, former slave, opposed confrontation with whites. Founded Tuskegee Institute, a blak vocational school
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