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dumbbell tenement |
high rise urban building that provided barrackslike housing for urban slum dwellers |
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New Immigrants |
term for most post-1880 newcomers who came to America primarily from southern and eastern Europe |
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Birds of Passage |
immigrants who came to America to earn money for a time and then returned to their native land |
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social gospel |
the religious doctrines preached by those who believed that the churches should directly address economic and social problems |
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Hull House |
settlement house in the Chicago slums that became a model for women’s involvement in urban social reform |
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social worker |
profession established by jane mcaddams and others that opened new doors for women while engaging in urban problems |
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american protection agency |
nativist organization that attacked new immigrants and roman catholics in the 1880s and 1890s |
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roman catholics |
the church that became the largest American religious group, mainly as a result of new immigration |
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Tuskegee Institute |
black educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts |
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NAACP |
organization founded by W. E. B. Du Bois and others to advance black social and economic equality |
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Progress and Poverty |
Henry George’s best selling book that advocated social reform through the imposition of a "single tax" on land |
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Comstock Law |
federal law promoted by a self appointed morality crusader and used to prosecute moral and sexual dissidents |
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Women and Economics |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s book urging women to enter the work force and advocating cooperative kitchens and child care centers |
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National American Women’s Suffrage Association |
organization formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women |
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Women’s Christian temperance union |
women’s organization founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption |
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Louis Sullivan |
chicago based architect whose high rise innovation allowed more people to crowd into limited urban space |
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Dwight L. Moody |
popular evangelical preacher who brought the tradition of old time revivalism to the industrial city |
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Jane Addams |
leading social reformer who lived with the poor in the slums and pioneered new forms of activism for women |
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Walter Rauschenbusch |
leading protestant adovocate of the "social gospel" who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems |
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Mary Baker Eddy |
author and founder of a popular new religion based on the principles of spiritual healing |
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Booker T. Washington |
former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
harvard educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a talented tenth |
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William James |
harvard scholar who made original contributions to modern psychology and philosophy |
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Henry George |
controversial reformer whose book Progress and Poverty advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land |
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Emily Dickinson |
gifted but isolated New England poet, the bulk of whose works were not published until after her death |
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Mark Twain |
midwestern born writer and lecturer who created a new style of American literature based on social realism and humor |
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Victoria Woodhull |
radical feminist propagandist whose eloquent attacks on conventional social morality shocked many Americans in the 1870’s |
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Anthony Comstock |
vigorous nineteenth century crusader for sexual purity who used federal law to enforce his moral views |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
brilliant feminist writer who advocated cooperative cooking and child care arrangements to promote women’s economic independence and equality |
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Henry Adams |
well connected and socially prominent historian who feared modern trends and sought relief in the beauty and culture of the past |
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