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APUSH Ch. 24-28
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Louis Sullivan | Chicago architect; contributed to development of skyscrapers; "form follows function"; helped make sky scrapers popular |
| Birds of Passage | those who worked in America for a number of years and after earning a decent amount of money, they would travel back to their home country |
| Jane Addams | had a college education; used her talents to teach and do volunteer work, Hull house (American settlement home); condemned war and poverty; won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 |
| Hull House | run by Jane Addams; American settlement home; located in a poor area but gave help to the poor in English; child-care, adjustment to big-city life, cultural activities |
| Florence Kelly | fought for welfare of women, children, blacks and consumers; moved to Henry Street Settlement ; served 30 years as a general secretary of the National Consumer League |
| American Protective Association | antiforeign organization; urged voting against Roman Catholic candidates for office and sponsored publication of lustful fantasies about runaway nuns |
| Dwight Lyman Moody | urban revivalist; once a shoe salesman; spoke to audiences about forgiveness |
| Salvation Army | a new denomination of religion that came from England; gave out free soup |
| Fundamentalists | those who rejected Darwin's beliefs |
| Modernists | those who accepted Darwin's beliefs as well as Christianity |
| Chautauqua | made education available to adults |
| Booker T. Washington | Ex-slave, believed that one should make themselves useful in order to go against white supremacy |
| George Washington Carver | discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut and other agricultural items that helped the southern economy |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | disagreed with Booker T. Washinton; earned a Ph. D. at Harvard (the first blackish person to do so); demanded complete equality for blacks, both socially and economically; helped found the NAACP |
| National Association for the Advancement of Color people | founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in order to achieve complete equality for blacks |
| Morrill Act | passed in 1862; gave a generous grant of public land to states for education |
| Land Grant Colleges | most of the land given from the Morrill Act became these types of schools; usually state universities |
| Joseph Pulitzer | leader in sensationalism; Colored comic supplements featured the "Yellow Kid" (became yellow journalism) |
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