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Louis Sullivan

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Made the skyscraper popular

Form allows function

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Theodore Dreiser

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Wrote Sister Carrie

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Walter Rauschenbusch

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Protestant clergyman
Applied Christianity to slums and factories
Pastor of German baptist church

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Washington Gladden

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Took over congressional church in Ohio

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Jane Addams

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Middle class woman
Established the Hull House
Reformer, condemned war and poverty
Won nobel peace prize

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Florence Kelley

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Fought for welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers

General secretary of national consumers league

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Dwight Lyman Moody

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Urban revivalist preached in different American cities

Founded Moody Bible Institute

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Cardinal Gibbons

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Urban catholic leader
Wanted american unity
Popular with both Catholics and Protestants
Assisted labor movement

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Mary baker eddy

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Founded the church of Christ, scientist (Christian Science)

Wrote science and health with key to the scriptures

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Colonel Robert g ingersall

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Skeptic

Lectured on mistakes of Moses and why I am an agnostic

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Booker t Washington

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Founded Tuskegee institute
Accommodationist, self help approach
Worked in segregation
Thought economic independence would lead to political and civil rights

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WEB Du Bois

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Helped found NAACP

Full and immediate access to American life

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Dr. Charles w. Elliot

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Chemist
President of Harvard college
Embed on career of education statesmanship

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Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister

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Made important medical discoveries

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William James

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Served on Harvard faculty
Wrote principles of psychology, the will to believe, varieties of religious experience, and pragmatism
Truth had to be tested rather than theories

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Leader in techniques of sensationalism

Colored comic supplements yellow journalism

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William Randolph Hearst

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Expelled from Harvard

Built up powerful chain of newspapers

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Edwin L. Godkin

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Launched New York’s Nation

Crusaded for civil service reform, honesty in gov, and moderate tariff

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Henry George

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Wrote poverty and progress

Wanted single 100% tax on land

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Edward Bellamy

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Journalist and reformer

Published Looking Backward

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Harlan F. Halsey

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King of dime novelists

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Lewis Wallace

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Lawyer, soldier, author

Wrote Ben hur

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Horation Alger

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Wrote juvenile fiction-virtues of honesty and industry are rewarded. Y success wealth and honor

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote leaves of grass (revised it)

Wrote poems

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Emily Dickinson

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Her poetry emerged after she died

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Sidney Lanier

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Wrote poems

The marshes of glynn

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Kate Chopin

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Wrote about suicide, adultery, and women’s ambitions

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Mark twain

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Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Wrote the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county, roughing it, the innocents abroad, the gilded age (with Charles Dudley Warner)

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Bret Hart

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Wrote luck of roaring camp and the outcasts of poker flat

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William dean Howells

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Editor of Atlanta monthly

Wrote a modern instance, the rise of Silas lapham, hazard of new fortunes

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Stephen crane

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Wrote Maggie: a girl of the streets, the red badge of courage

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Henry James

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Wrote about confrontation of innocent Americans with subtle europeans: Daisy Miller, the portrait of A lady , the wings of the dove, the Bostonians

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Jack London

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The call of the wild

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Frank Norris

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The octopus, the pit

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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Black poet

Lyrics of lowly life

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Charles w chesnutt

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Black fictionalist short stories for Atlantic monthly and the conjure women

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Victoria Woodhall

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Believed in free love
Divorced, stockbroker, feminist propagandist
Published Woodhall and claflins weekly, with her sister, Tennessee Claflin

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Anthony Comstock

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Fought immoral, defended sexual purity

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Charlotte Perkins gilman

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Feminist profit
Published women and economics
Wanted women to stop being dependent, get involved in the economy

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Carrie chapman Catt

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Effective suffrage leader

Stoppednthe emphasis on that they were equal and shifted to the fact women were discharging public roles

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Ida b wells

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Helped launch national association of colored women

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Frances e Willard

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Champion of planned parenthood

Led the women’s Christian temperance union

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Carrie nation

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Smashed saloons and brought disrepute to prohibition

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James whistler

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Portrait painter (failed at chemistry in England)

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John singer Sargent

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Portrait painter

Likeness of British nobility

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Mary Cassatt

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Exiled to Paris

Painted sensitive portrayals of women and children

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George Inness

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Leading landscapist

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Thomas Eakins

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High degree of realism in paintings

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Winslow homer

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Greatest painter
Resisted foreign influence
Realism and boldness of conception

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Augustus saint

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Sculptor

Robert Gould shaw memorial

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Henry h. Richardson

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Architect
Populized ornamental style aka richardsonian- high arches
Marshall field building in Chicago

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Phineas t Barnum and James a baily

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William f Cody

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Wild West shows

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Walter c camp

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Football yaleman

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Jim Corbett

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Boxing world champion from John l Sullivan

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James Naismith

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Invented basketball

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American protective association

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Urged voting against Roman Catholic candidates for office

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Conservatives

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Stood on scriptures as infallible word of god

Condemned Darwinians

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Modernists

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Refused to accept the bible at all

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Chautauqua movement

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Education movement for adults (lectures)

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Morrill act of 1862

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Gave generous grant of public lands to the states for support of education

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The hatch act of 1887

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Extended the Morrill act, provided funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with the land grant colleges

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