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middle-class woman who was deeply dedicated to
uplifting the urban masses. She was one of the first generation of
college-educated women. She established the Hull House in Chicago 1889, which
was a settlement house (a place where immigrants came for counseling, literacy
training, child care, and cultural activities.
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Jane Addams
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armed with the insights of socialism and endowed
with the voice of an actress, she was a lifelong battler for the welfare of
women, children, blacks, and consumers. She led the case of when the Hull House
lobbied for an Illinois sweatshop law that protected women workers and
prohibited child labor. “a guerilla warrior in the urban jungle.”
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Florence Kelley
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she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist
(Christian Science) in 1879, after she had suffered much ill health. The main
belief of Christian Science was healing through prayer, not through medical
treatment.
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Mary Baker Eddy
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he published a volume called the On Origin of the
Species. His theory of evolution argued that higher forms of life had evolved
from lower forms via random mutation and survival-of-the-fittest. His review
thus rejected divine creation. Conservatives stood firmly in their beliefs of
God and religion, why Modernists flatly refused to accept the Bible in its
entirety.
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Charles Darwin
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He developed a plan
for bettering the lots of blacks. His commitment to training young blacks in
agriculture and the trades guided the curriculum at Tuskegee Institute, which
was a normal school for black teachers and taught hands-on industrial trades.
He avoided the issue of social equality, and instead focused on one thing at a
time: developing economic and educational recourses of the black community
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Booker T. Washington
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the first African American to earn a PhD at
Harvard. He demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic,
and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP). He called for the “talented tenth” of the black community to be given
full access and equality. His criticism was that Washington’s method put blacks
in a little box of manual labor only.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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he made a large impact in psychology through his
numerous writings. He was one of America’s most brilliant intellectuals and
served 35 years on the Harvard faculty. His Principles of Psychology helped to
establish the modern discipline of behavioral psychology. The concept of
pragmatism held that truth was to be tested, above all, by the practical
consequences of an idea, by action rather than theories.
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William James
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he was a journalist-author who was an original thinker
who left an enduring mark. Poor in formal schooling, he was rich in idealism
and human kindness. After seeing poverty at its worst in India, he wrote the
book Progress and Poverty, which
attempted to solve the association of progress with poverty. His theory was
that “progress” pushed land values up and created poverty amongst many. His
solution to the distribution of wealth was to propose a 100% tax on profits—a
very controversial proposal.
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Henry George
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he wrote rags-to-riches stories, usually about a
good boy that made good. They all championed the virtues of honesty and hard
work that lead to prosperity and honor. His best know book was Ragged Dick. He was a Puritan-driven New
Englander who wrote more than 100 volumes of juvenile fiction including New
Yorker newsboys in 1866. He said that virtue, honesty, and industry are
rewarded by success, wealth, and honor. A survival of the purest, especially
nonsmokers, nondrinkers, nonswearers, and nonliars.
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Horatio Alger
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his original name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He
traveled through the West and wrote Roughing
It recounting the trip. It was a mix of truths, half-truths, and tall
tales, and the readers loved it. He co-wrote The Gilded Age that laid bare on the questionable politics and
business of the day. He also wrote the Adventures
of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn. He was a journalist, humorist, satirist, and opponent of
social injustice. He recaptured the limits of realism and humor in the
authentic American dialect.
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Mark Twain
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she was a feminist who published Women and Economics, a classic of
feminism. She (1) shunned traditional femininity, (2) said there were no real
differences between men and women, and (3) called for group of nurseries and
kitchens to free up women. She called upon women to abandon their dependent
status and contribute to the larger life of the community through productive
involvement in the economy. She devoted herself to a vigorous regimen of
physical exercise and philosophical meditation.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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she took command of the suffrage battle. Under her,
the suffragists de-emphasized the argument that women deserved the matter of
right, because they were in all respects the equals of men. Instead, she
stressed the desirability of giving women the vote if they were to continue to
discharge their traditional duties as homemakers and mothers in the
increasingly public world of the city.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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He was an urban Catholic leader devoted to American unity, who was immensely popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants alike. He employed his liberal sympathies to assist the American labor movement.
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Cardinal James Gibbons
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a former Chicago shoe salesmen. He was a country
boy who made good in the big city. Proclaiming a gospel of kindness and
forgiveness, he was a modern urban circuit rider who took his message to
countless American cities in the 1870s and 80s. His goal and achievement was to
connect biblical teachings and Christianity to modern city life. The Moody
Bible Institute founded in Chicago was founded in 1899.
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Dwight L. Moody
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A chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas.
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megalopolis
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