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