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Key people in the 19th century society. Ch 25. Social reform, education, press

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leading protestant advocate of the "social gospel" who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems. Formed the Brotherhood of the Kingdom. Works:Christianity & the Social Crisis, Theology for the Social Gospel   show
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show Washington Gladden  
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show Jane Addams  
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Outspoken advocate of child labor legislation and woman. Opened the Henry Street Settlement in New York in 1895   show
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Worked at Hull House. Lobbied(1893) for an Ill. anti-sweatshop law. Lifelong battler for the rights of women, children, blacks, & consumers. Moved to the Henry Street Settlement in NY & served for 3 decades as a gen. secretary of the Nat. Consumers League   show
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show Dwight L. Moody  
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Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Served as Bishop of Richmond 1872-1877, & as Archbishop of Baltimore. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinal later in 1886, the second American to receive that distinction.   show
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show Mary Baker Eddy  
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show Charles Darwin  
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show Booker T. Washington  
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show W.E.B. DuBois  
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show Dr. Charles Eliot  
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Acclaimed as one of the most brilliant philosophers yet produced in America, served 35 years on the Harvard faculty & was the proponent of the philosophical concept known as pragmatism.   show
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show William Rudolph Hearst  
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show Joseph Pulitzer  
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show Edwin L. Godkin  
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Wrote Progress & Poverty which examined the relationship between those two concepts. His theory was that "progress" pushed land values up and thus increased poverty amongst many.   show
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Pub. the novel Looking Backward. It's character fell asleep & awoke in the year 2000 to an ideal society. His solution was that the govt. had taken over all business, communist/socialist-style, & everything was rosy.   show
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show Harlan F. Halsey  
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Wrote Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It countered Darwinism with faith in Christ & sold 2 million copies.   show
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show Horatio Alger  
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show Walt Whitman  
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show Emily Dickinson  
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Wrote openly about adultery, suicide, and the ambitions of women in The Awakening (1889).   show
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show Mark Twain  
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Co-writer of The Gilded Age, with Mark Twain   show
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Wrote of the West in his gold rush stories, especially "The Luck of Roaring Camp" & "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."   show
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show William Dean Howells  
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Wrote brilliantly & realistically about industrial, urban America in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893). It told of a girl-turned-prostitute & then suicide.The Red Badge of Courage (1895) about a Civil War soldier and his sacrifice.   show
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Brother of philosopher William James, usually wrote about innocent Americans, normally women, thrown amid Europeans. His best works were Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), & The Bostonians (1886).   show
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show Frank Norris  
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show Paul Laurence Dunbar  
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show Charles W. Chestnutt  
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"social novelist"; from Indiana. Wrote Sister Carrie (poor working girl in Chicago & New York, becomes mistress, elopes with someone else, makes an acting career)   show
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show Victoria Woodhull  
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Published a periodical that shocked proper Elizabethan society w/Elizabeth Woodhull. Pushed for women's propaganda.   show
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show Henry Ward Beecher  
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Vigorous nineteenth century crusader for sexual purity who used federal law to enforce his moral views.   show
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A brilliant feminist writer who advocated cooperative cooking & child care arrangements to promote women's economic independence & equality.   show
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show Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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show Susan B. Anthony  
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show Carrie Chapman Catt  
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An African American journalist. Published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores.   show
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Encouraged over one million women to make the world more "homelike", part of the Anti-Saloon League   show
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show Carrie A. Nation  
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A reformer & nurse of the 19th century, who founded the American Red Cross in the 1880s. She had organized nursing care for Union soldiers during the Civil War.   show
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2nd president(Federalist) of the US. Responsible for passing the Alien & Sedition Acts. Prevented all out war w/France after the XYZ Affair. His passing of the Alien & Sedition Acts, hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself.   show
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show James Whistler  
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An American painter in England. Drew flattering but superficial likeness to British nobility that made him "highly prized."   show
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Self taught; became America's leading landscapist   show
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show Thomas Eakins  
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A painter who was resistant against foreign influences & brought rugged realism & boldness of conception; known for paintings of the sea   show
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Most gifted American sculptor one of his most moving works is the Robert Gould Shaw memorial   show
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Colonel in command of the all-black 54th Regiment, which entered the American Civil War in 1863.   show
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Chicago architect. Contributed to development of skyscrapers; "form follows function"; helped make sky scrapers popular   show
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Architect, distinctive, ornamental style. Style called Richardsonian. High vaulted arches; Marshall Fields in Chicago   show
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show Phineas T. Barnum  
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Began the "Greatest Show on Earth" with Barnum.   show
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show William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody  
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show Walter C. Camp  
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show Agile "Gentleman Jim" Corbett  
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show John L. Sullivan  
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Invented basketball in 1888.   show
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