APUSH CHAPTER 25 matching people places and events

Daniel Burnham

American architect and planner who helped bring French Baron Haussman's City Beautiful movement to the United States.

Charles Darwin

British biologist whose theories of human and animal evolution by means of natural selection created religious and intellectual controversy

Louis Sullivan

Chicago-based architect whose high-rise innovation allowed people to crowd into limited urban space

Henry George

Controversial reformer whose book, Progress and Poverty, advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land

Booker T. Washington

Former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks

Emily Dickinson

Gifted but isolated New England poet, the bulk of whose works were published posthumously

William James

Harvard scholar who made original contributions to modern psychology and philosophy

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a talented tenth

W. E. B. Du boise

Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a talented tenth

Walter Rauschenbusch

Leading Protestant advocate of the social gospel who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems

Jane Addams

Leading social reformer who lived with the poor in the slums and pioneered forms of activism for women

Mark Twain

Midwestern-born writer and lecturer who created a new style of American literature based on social realism and humor

Haratio Alger

Popular novelist whose tales of young people rising from poverty to wealth through hard work and good fortune enhanced Americans' belief in individual opportunity

Victoria Woodhull

Radical feminist propagandist whose eloquent attacks on conventional social morality shocked many Americans in the 1870s

Henry Adams

Well-connected and socially prominent historian who feared modern trends and sought relief in the beauty and culture of the past