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 Argued that confining women to the domestic sphere had become outdated.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.