Chapter 19 - "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917 Flashcards
Scott Joplin
popular master of ragtime music
Tom Johnson
progressive who reformed ownership of public utilities in Chicago
Jacob Riis
famous “muckraking” journalist
Jane Addams
founder of Hull House, a social settlement
Margaret Sanger
New York City nurse who advocated for birth control
Upton Sinclair
author of The Jungle, which exposed extreme forms of labor in America
Florence Kelley
resident of Hull House who was a social and political reformer
Home Insurance Building
the first skyscraper; located in Chicago
Chicago school
a school of architecture dedicated to the design of buildings whose form expressed their structure and function
mutual aid societies
urban aid society that served members of an ethnic immigrant group
race riot
attacks by white mobs against blacks that were triggered by street altercations or rumors of crime
tenements
buildings that housed twenty or more families in small, airless apartments
vaudeville theater
professional stage show popular in the 1880s and 1890s that included singing, dancing, and comedy routines; popular among families
ragtime
popular form of music in the early 1900s among all classes and races
blues
a type of music that spoke of hard work and heartbreak