chapter 25
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| 669809770 | Louis Sullivan | Chicago architect; contributed to development of skyscrapers; "form follows function"; helped make sky scrapers popular | |
| 669809771 | slums | human pigsties | |
| 669809772 | "dumbbell" tenement | won contest to make cheap buildings that would circulate the air. cheap wasn't always the answer. smell of urine, icky stuff would be circulated in the air. | |
| 669809773 | "flophouses" | a place to sleep (not live). a nice one would cost around ten cents. | |
| 669809774 | Jane Addams | formed first settlement house (Hull House) in the heart of the Chicago slums. Won Nobel peace prize in 1931. | |
| 669809775 | American Protective Association | anti catholic. interested in looking at solutions .had fears about: rise in crime, socialist/anarchist, overlarge families, lack of education. They didn't understand the government and how it worked. | |
| 669809776 | "normal schools" | teacher training schools | |
| 669809777 | George Washington Carver | attacked Booker T. Washington because he condemned the black race to manual labor and perpetual inferiority. Also created the NAACP. | |
| 669809778 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. co founded by W.E.B. Dubois. | |
| 669809779 | Morrill Act of 1862 | Federal government gave states money/land for state colleges. More state colleges were made because of the many immigrants. | |
| 669809780 | Hatch Act of 1887 | extended Morrill Act and provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with the land grant colleges. | |
| 669809781 | Yellow journalism | untrue, sensational, exaggerated papers. By Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. | |
| 669809782 | Henry George/Book | reform journalist. wrote book PROGRESS AND POVERTY. Had idea of 100% land tax in which a person who bought land that increased in value over time would receive a small reasonable profit and leftover profit money would be given to the poor. | |
| 669809783 | Edward Bellamy/Book | reform journalist. wrote book LOOKING BACKWARDS about a man who fell asleep then woke up in 2000. saw that 2000 was full of employment and prosperity. went back to his time and taught the younger generation what to do to become prosperous by 2000. Bellamy had the same idea. | |
| 669809784 | Horatio Alger | Key novelist. wrote stories that followed the idea that virtue, honesty, and industry are rewarded by success, wealth, and honor. rags to riches. | |
| 669809785 | Victoria Woodhull | free love and communism. first women to run for presidency. | |
| 669809786 | Anthony Comstock/"Comstock Law" | wrote series of laws that were anti pornographic. But he was to determine what was considered pornographic. Determines what is regulated. said that showing any body parts was pornographic. Caused more harm than good. | |
| 669809787 | Carries Chapman Catt | working for women suffrage/vote. | |
| 669809788 | Ida B. Wells | also known as Barnett. A black women from the south. exposed the evils of racism- kkk and lynching.Exposed large mulatto population | |
| 669809789 | Carrie A. Nation | working for temperence/getting rid of alcohol. | |
| 669809790 | James Naismith | invented basketball in 1888 | |
| 671495125 | "new morality" | reflected sexual freedom in the increase of birth control, divorces, and frank discussions of sexual topics. | |
| 671495126 | Minstrel shows | form of entertainment-magic shows. Used to be acted by white with black makeup on but now with actual blacks. | |
| 671495127 | Pugilism | boxing without gloves. speculator sport. "bare-knuckled brutality" |
