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Progressive Thinkers
Writers and Intellectuals of the Progressive Era
Question | Answer |
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Clergyman who believed that the white race was superior to all others; wrote Our Country; argued that Americans were superior because they were Anglo-Saxon | Josiah Strong |
Clergyman from NY who preached the social gospel, worked to alleviate poverty, and worked to make peace between employers and labor unions | Walter Rauschenbusch |
Wrote Looking Backwards, 2000-1887, a utopian novel which predicted that the US would become a socialist state | Edward Bellamy |
Wrote Progress and Poverty, saying that poverty was the inevitable side-effect of progress, proposed a single tax that would be a flat tax on everyone | Henry George |
Developed the philosophy of pragmatism; brother to a famous novelist; also one of the founders of modern psychology | William James |
Encouraged blacks to seek a vocational education in order to rise above their second-class status in society | Booker T. Washington |
Felt that black elites would lead the way for the race to improve; was not content to wait for whites to recognize that blacks deserved equal rights; co-founder of the NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois |
Historian who felt that the frontier provided a safety valve for the discontented in society; said that the frontier was responsible for unique aspects of American democracy | Frederick Jackson Turner |
Wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History; argued that the US needed to build a modern navy to protect international trade | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth; Muckraker who revealed illegal business practices in many large American corporations | Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class; economist who believed that society was always evolving but that the wealthiest members of society were not the fittest contrary to the beliefs of Social Darwinism | Thorstien Velben |
Wrote How the Other Half Lives; exposed social and political evils in the US; also a photographer | Jacob Riis |
Wrote The Shame of the Cities, a muckraking novel concerning the poor living conditions in the cities | Lincoln Steffens |
Wrote The Octopus about how railroads controlled the lives of a group of California farmers | Frank Norris |
Muckraker who exposed the monopolistic practices of the John D. Rockefeller in History of the Standard Oil Company | Ida Tarbell |
Founder of theory of "progressive education;" advocated "learning by doing" | John Dewey |
Famous justice of the Supreme Court; called the "Great Dissenter" because he spoke out against the imposition of federal regulations and standards | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Wrote The Jungle, a muckraking novel exposing the corruption and lack of health standards in meat packing industry | Upton Sinclair |
Economist who wrote in the Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, that the founding fathers were motivated by their own personal interests | Charles Beard |