APUSH CH 25

Brooker T. Washington

Born into slavery, had a love for learning, with this love he started a school in Tuskeegee Alabama, University of Tuskeegee, He was not afraid f hard work.

Charles Darwin

English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

Dumbbell Tenement

Houses that poor people lived in, located in cities Showed some atrocities of American industrial life.

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Hull House

Settlement house founded by progressive reformer Jane Adams in Chicago in 18889

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She wrote Women and Economics(1898) that traced the history of sexual discrimination. Argued that confining women to the domestic sphere had become outdated.

W.E.B. Du Bois

fought for African American rights. Helped to found Niagra Movement in 1905 to fight for and establish equal rights. This movement later led to the establishment of the NAACP

Morrill Act of 1862

provided a grant of public lands to states for support of education

Nativists

term for those who were against immigration, anti foreignism

Jane Addams

the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes

Megalopolis

a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)

Carrie Chapman Catt

Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage.