Chapter 25 Flashcards
Louis Sullivan
Made the skyscraper popular
Form allows function
Theodore Dreiser
Wrote Sister Carrie
Walter Rauschenbusch
Protestant clergyman
Applied Christianity to slums and factories
Pastor of German baptist church
Washington Gladden
Took over congressional church in Ohio
Jane Addams
Middle class woman
Established the Hull House
Reformer, condemned war and poverty
Won nobel peace prize
Florence Kelley
Fought for welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers
General secretary of national consumers league
Dwight Lyman Moody
Urban revivalist preached in different American cities
Founded Moody Bible Institute
Cardinal Gibbons
Urban catholic leader
Wanted american unity
Popular with both Catholics and Protestants
Assisted labor movement
Mary baker eddy
Founded the church of Christ, scientist (Christian Science)
Wrote science and health with key to the scriptures
Colonel Robert g ingersall
Skeptic
Lectured on mistakes of Moses and why I am an agnostic
Booker t Washington
Founded Tuskegee institute
Accommodationist, self help approach
Worked in segregation
Thought economic independence would lead to political and civil rights
WEB Du Bois
Helped found NAACP
Full and immediate access to American life
Dr. Charles w. Elliot
Chemist
President of Harvard college
Embed on career of education statesmanship
Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister
Made important medical discoveries
William James
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
Joseph Pulitzer
Leader in techniques of sensationalism
Colored comic supplements yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Expelled from Harvard
Built up powerful chain of newspapers
Edwin L. Godkin
Launched New York’s Nation
Crusaded for civil service reform, honesty in gov, and moderate tariff
Henry George
Wrote poverty and progress
Wanted single 100% tax on land
Edward Bellamy
Journalist and reformer
Published Looking Backward
Harlan F. Halsey
King of dime novelists
Lewis Wallace
Lawyer, soldier, author
Wrote Ben hur
Horation Alger
Wrote juvenile fiction-virtues of honesty and industry are rewarded. Y success wealth and honor
Walt Whitman
Wrote leaves of grass (revised it)
Wrote poems