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America Moves to the City US Population doubled between 1870 & million Americans, 40% living in cities New York, Philadelphia, Chicago all had over 1 million inhabitants Skyscrapers, mass transit, tenements, high immigration, especially from E. and S. Europe

Jane Addams Founder of Hull House Winner of Nobel Peace Prize

Carrie Nation “Kansas Cyclone”

Frances Willard WCTU Led “White Ribbon Army” for 20 years Most powerful female leader of her generation

Victoria Woodhull Ran for president, 1872 Published weekly scandal sheet Accused Henry Ward Beecher of adultery Opened brokerage firm on Wall St. Published first English translation of the Communist Manifesto in US Married 3 times Was prosecuted for sending obscenity through the mail under the Comstock law Won case in court

Mary Baker Eddy Founder of Christian Science Opposed modern medicine Believed prayer cures sickness

“The Loop” in downtown Chicago

Building the New York subway system

Central Park, New York City

“Liberty Enlightening the World” Dedicated 1886 Sculpted by Frederic Bartholdi with help from Gustave Eiffel

Ellis Island, New York harbor

Rebuilding Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871

L.Sullivan Louis Sullivan Chicago Architect “Form Follows Function”

Flat Iron Building

First “Department Store”—Macy’s

Industrial Age brought new jobs for women: Secretaries Department store clerks Bookkeepers Telephone operators

Richard Sears First “Mail-order” Millionaire

Clara Barton founded the Red Cross in 1881

Carrie Chapman Catt National American Women’s Suffrage Association

Emma Goldman Anarchist agitator and propagandist

“Big Bill” Haywood “Mother” Jones

Most popular cultural fad of 1890s

“The Gibson Girl”

Dwight L. Moody Former Chicago shoe salesman Fundamentalist evangelical preacher Founder of Moody Bible Institute

Stephen Crane Realism Naturalism The Red Badge of Courage The Open Boat

Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, a futuristic utopian novel

Herbert Spencer Social Darwinism “Survival of the fittest”

Horatio Alger wrote many “rags to riches” stories, especially targeting young male readers

Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie An American Tragedy

Biglen Brothers Racing

Breezin’ Up

Andrew Carnegie, millionaire industrialist and philanthropist

Cornelius Vanderbilt “The Commodore”

Vanderbilt Mansion Newport, RI

John D. Rockefeller

Junius Pierpont Morgan

Thomas Edison

Booker T. Washington Founder of Tuskegee Institute

W.E.B. DuBois Co-founder of NAACP PhD from Harvard Wrote “The Souls of Black Folk”

Ida Wells Barnett

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