From the American Pagent 13th Edition
610430943 | Sister Carrie | Written by Theodore Dreiser Includes Carrie Meeber | |
610430944 | Carrie Meeber | Represented the consumerism and city life | |
610430945 | Dumbbell Tenement | Cram packed families into small apartments | |
610430946 | Immigration | People poured in from southern Europe and amassed in "Little Italy"s and others Businesses wanted because it was cheap labor | |
610430947 | Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden | Wanted to fix the slums Thought socialism was the answer | |
610430948 | Jane Addams | Established the most popular American settlement house in Chicago Called the Hull House Preached antiwar | |
610430949 | Hull House | Offered lessons in English Lobbied for an Illinois anti-sweatshop law protecting women and children Led by Florence Kelly | |
610430950 | Lillian Wald | Henry Street Settlement Opened in 1893 | |
610430951 | Florence Kelly | Fought for women, children, blacks, and consumers Went from Hull House, to the Henry Street Settlement, and then the National Consumers League | |
610430952 | Antiforeignism | Respurred in the 1880s because of the high influx of people and their alarming birthrates | |
610430953 | American Protective Association (APA) | Created in 1887 and claimed a million members Advocated against voting for Roman Catholics for office | |
610430954 | Congress 1882 | Wouldn't let paupers or criminals in | |
610430955 | Congress 1885 | Wouldn't let any foreign worker in under contract, usually for sub-standard wages | |
610430956 | Other Congress | List of people was eventually extended to the insane, polygamists, alcoholics, anarchists, and people with contagious diseases | |
610430957 | Congress 1917 | Finally said that there needed to be a literacy test, after 3 dif pres vetoed | |
610430958 | Congress 1882 | Bans completely, the Chinese | |
610430959 | Statue of Liberty | Gift from French in 1886 | |
610430960 | Episcopal Church | Dominated by status and who had the most money | |
610430961 | New, liberal Protestants | Dominated Protestantism between 1875 and 1925 Didn't take Bible literally Questioned idea of original sin | |
610430962 | Dwight Lyman Moody | Formal shoe salesman Liberal Protestant | |
610430963 | Cardinal James Gibbons | Roman Catholic leader devoted to American Unity and popular with both Catholics and Protestants | |
610430964 | Salvation Army | Spread in 1879 | |
610430965 | The Church of Christ, Scientist | Lead by Mary Baker Eddy after a sickness Promised cure from diseases through prayer | |
610430966 | Mary Baker Eddy | Wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures | |
610430967 | YMCA YWCA | Combined other teaching with religious ones | |
610430968 | On the Origin of Species | Published in 1859 Published by Darwin and heralded Natural Selection Caused more skeptical thinking | |
610430969 | Education | Took a sharp upturn with public education skyrocketing and more teacher schools opening Due to immigration, Catholic Schools also grew | |
610430970 | Booker T Washington | Ex-slave helped education grow in the South Taught students useful skills for them to grow past themselves | |
610430971 | George Washington Carver | Found a bunch of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean | |
610430972 | Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois | Condemned Brooker T Washington for teaching just practical skills Demanded complete equality for blacks Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP in 1910 | |
610430973 | Morrill Act of 1862 | Gave generous amounts of land to public education | |
610430974 | Hatch Act of 1887 | Extended the Morrill Act, giving funds to agricultural experiments in connection to land grant colleges | |
610430975 | Dr. Charles W. Eliot | Young chemist President of Harvard | |
610430976 | Joseph Lister | Listerine | |
610430977 | Louis Pasteur | Pasteurize | |
610430978 | William James | Principles of Psychology (1890) The Will to Believe (1897) Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) Pragmatism (1907) | |
610430979 | Henry George | Progress and Poverty Wanted 100% tax on the owners of land | |
610430980 | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward | |
610430981 | General Lewis Wallace | Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ Anti-Darwinist | |
610430982 | Kate Chopin | The Awakening Feminist | |
610430983 | William Deal Howells | Editor in Chief of Atlantic Monthly A Modern Instance (1882) The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) The Hazard of New Fortunes | |
610430984 | Stephan Crane | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) The Red Badge of Courage (1895) | |
610430985 | Henry Adams | Great grandson of John Adams History of the US During the Admins of Jeff and Mad Mont-Saint-Mitchel and Chartres (1905) The Education of Henry Adams (1907) | |
610430986 | Henry James | Daisy Miller (1879) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Bostonians (1886) | |
610430987 | Jack London | The Call of the Wild (1903) The Iron Heel (1907) | |
610430988 | Frank Norris | The Octopus (1901) The Pit (1903) | |
610430989 | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Black Poet Lyrics of Lowly Life (1986) | |
610430990 | Charles W Chesnutt | Black short story writer Atlantic Monthly The Conjure Women | |
610430991 | Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie (1900) | |
610430992 | Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin | Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly Far-out and radical Supported free love | |
610430993 | Anthony Comstock | Waged war on the immoral Prude asshole | |
610430994 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Women and Economics | |
610430995 | National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890) | Included many reformers Only allowed white women | |
610430996 | Carrie Chapman Catt | *** | |
610430997 | Ida B Wells | Helped launch national anti-lynching campaign | |
610430998 | National Prohibition Party (1869) | *** | |
610430999 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union | Lead by Frances E. Willard | |
610431000 | Carrie A. Nation | Crazy prohibitionist woman | |
610431001 | Anti-Saloon League (1893) | *** | |
610431002 | 18th Amendment | 1919 Prohibition | |
610431003 | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866) | *** | |
610431004 | American Red Cross (1881) | *** | |
610431005 | James Whistler | Painter from MA in GB | |
610431006 | John Singer Sargent | Painter from US in GB | |
610431007 | Mary Cassatt | US painter in exile in Paris | |
610431008 | George Inness | Became US's leading landscapist | |
610431009 | Thomas Eakins | Portraitist with a high degree of realism | |
610431010 | Winslow Homer | Boston born and one of the best painters of his time | |
610431011 | Augustus Saint Gaudens | Born in Ireland but moved to US Greatest sculpture of his time | |
610431012 | Metropolitan Opera House (1883) | In NY Brought Euro music to US but also started developing jazz and such | |
610431013 | Louis Sullivan | Skyscraper builder One of greatest architects | |
610431014 | Henry H. Richardson | Born in Louisiana and educated at Harvard and in Paris Large gothic style arches Marshal Field Building (1885) |