Chapter 25 + Misc.

• Rockefeller -Oil
• Carnegie -Steel
• Morgan -Finance/ Banking
• Vanderbilt -Railroads

Modern Technology

1885

working the railroad

dominated by large industry

banned workers from joining unions

violent

pinkertons

• came from eastern and southern europe, had to go through physical examination,
• They were fleeing because of over population and enlistment of the army

to ensure party dominence

lovated in high immigrant plaves provided daycare, english classes, mothering classes, helped asymilate to the dominant american culture

To eliminate compitition

famed architect worked on and perfected skyscapers (first appearing in Chicago in1885)

wrote Sister Carrie a story that told of a womans escapades in the big city and made cities dazzling and attractive

like Sears and Montgomery Ward, these stores made things cheap and easy to buy

until the 1880s most of the immigrants had come from the British Isles and western Europe (Germany and Scandinavia) and were quite literate and accustomed to some type of representative government

1880s and 1890s the Baltic and slavic people opposite from old immigrators

Walter Rauchenbusch and Washington Gladden began preaching the "Social Gospel" insisting that churches tackle the burning social issues of the day

founded Hull House in 1889 to teach children and adults the skills and knowledge that they would need to survive and succeded in America

founded Henry Street Settlement in New york and opened its doors in 1893

fought for the protection of women workers and against child labor

arose to go against new immigrants and labor leaders were quick to try to stop new immigration, since immigrants were frequently used as strikebreakers

arrived from france as a gift in 1886

a man who proclaimed the gospel of kindness and forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life

founded in Chicago in 1889 and continued working well after Moody's death in 1899

popular with roman catholics and protestants, he preached AMerican unity

(Christian Science), founded by Mary Baker Eddy, preached a perversion of Christianity that she claimed healed sickness

Young Mens Christian Association

in 1859 published his on the origin of Species which set forth the new doctrine of evolution and attracted the ire and fury of fundamentalists

they took a step from the fundamentalists and refused to believe that the bible was completely accurate and factual. They contended that the Bible was merely a collection of moral stories of guidelines, but not sacred scripture inspired by god

was one who denounced creationism, as he had been widely persuaded by the thoery of evolution

a successor to the lyceums, was launched in 1874. It included public lectures to many people by famouse writers and extensive at-home studies

• an ex-slave came to help the poor, wartorn south. He started by heading a black normal (teacher) and industrial school in Tuskegee, Alabama, and teaching the students useful skills and trades
• believed Blacks helping themselves before gaining rights

one of washingtons students who later discovered hundreds of new used for peanuts, sweets potatoes, and soybeans

the first Black to get a Ph.D from Harvard University, demanded complete equality for Blacks and action now. He also founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910

Howard University in Washington D.C., Atlanta University, and Hampton Institute in Virginia

of 1862 had provided a generous grant of the public lands to states for support of education

of 1887 provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with the land-grant colleges

maintained the nations first high-grade graduate school

Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister (antiseptics)

• this brilliant but sickly guy helped established the discipline of behavioral psychology, with his books Principles of Psychology (1890), The Will to Believe (1897), and Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
• Greatest work was Pragmatism (1907), which preached what he believed in: pragmatism (everything has a useful purpose)

newspapers reported on wild and fantastic stories that often were false or quite exaggerated

Joseph Pulitzer (New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (San Francisco Examiner)

• Lewis Wallace -cambated the ideas and beliefs of Darwinism and reaffirmed the traditional christian faith
• Horatio Alger -"Ragged" popular for his rags to riches books told virtue, honesty, and industry
• Walt Whitman -"Leaves of Grass"

in 1891 invented basket ball

painted sensitive portraits of women and children while george innes became america's leading landscapist

made the Robert Gould SHaw memorial located in Boston in 1897

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles W. Chesnutt

• published WOmen and economics
• called for women to abandon their dependent status and contribute to the larger life of the community through productive incolvement inthe economy
• pushed for day care centers

in 1890 an organization led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

stressed the desirability of giving women the vote if they were to continue to discharge their traditional duties as homemakers in the increasingly public world of the city

in 1896 Ida B Wells formed this and rallied toward better treatment for blacks

formed by Clara Barton, a Civil War nurse, was formed in 1881

Frances E. Willard and Carrie A. Nation