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Jane Addams |
• leader in women's suffrage • co-found the Hull House in Chicago= offered edu, social services and housing for adults/children • Anti-Imperialist League=opposed US annexation of the Philippines • elected prez of the Women’s Int'nat'l League for Peace and Freedom • 1st female to win Nobel Prize in 1931 • pacifist who fought for peace rather than war. also fought for no child labor, women's rights, reduced work hours * Advocated creation of the first juvenile court, an 8-hour working day for women, workers compensation, tenement house regulation, and factory inspection. |
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Booker T. Washington |
• Black educator/activist • president of the Tuskegee Institute • crafted the Atlanta Address of 1895 (agreement that Southern blacks would work for whites, and in return, receive basic education and fair treatment under the law) • didn’t believe in challenging the Jim Crow laws. Non-militant in confronting oppressive laws * Helped to raise funds to est thousands of community schools and institutions of higher edu for the improvement Southern blacks. Education helps Blacks in the long run against oppression |
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W.E.B Du Bois |
• civil rights activist/Pan-Africanist • co-founder of the NAACP • leader of the Niagara Movement (advocated the civil freedom of Blacks, criticized the Atlanta Compromise, opposed Washington’s ideals) • Wanted full civil rights for all AA’s • First AA to get PHD (from Harvard) • The Philadelphia Negro (1899)- 1st case study of AA comm. In which he put blame on racism for AA problems • Editor of NAACP magazine – The Crisis * Influential scholar representing the need for black freedom and equality plagued with racism thanks to white people. |
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Mark Twain |
• Wrote The Gilded Age (1873). Coined term Gilded Age • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) • Books became American classics * Resistance to social inequality through literature that angered many people. Made some think about society.
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Nativism |
• Antiforeignism/ “nativism,” by the Irish and German • ferocity towrards New Immigrants • Nativists viewed eastern and southern Europeans as culturally/religiously exotic and gave them rude reception • high birthrate w/ new raised worries that the original Anglo-Saxon ppl would be out-bred and outvoted and disappear * ironic bc Statue of Liberty placed in 1886 represented welcoming of immigrants. Reflected views of Know Nothing Party which were very hypocritical since all WHITE PEOPLE are immigrants who killed and pushed off Native Americans (the real Natives) |
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Yellow Journalism |
• 1895 – 1898 • Writings by Joseph Pulitzer of NY World • competitor: William Randolph Hearst (NY Journal) • Sensationalism: Topics to interest public into buying – sex, scandal; not much factual info • aimed to opinionate the reader by using eye catching headlines and exaggerating and giving "half the scoop" * Capitalist ideals seen in steel/coal/RR industry seen in press. Yellow Journalism mobilized Americans to push for war with Spain |
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Salvation Army |
• Humanitarian Organization • Helped problematic people rejected from Christianity by giving soup/supplies • Opposed alcohol/drug consumption • Disrupted by Skeleton Army (alcohol rights group) • SF Earthquake helped the org gain spotlight * Salvation army is the one of the first charity groups run by common people- not priests or nun. |
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Women's Christian Temperance Union |
• prohibitionist • Led by Frances E. Willard • Vs alcohol b/c root of societal problems + tobacco, wanted other social reforms (Suffrage) • Helped gain support for passage of 18th amendment * Helped pave way to passage of 18th Amendment and all of the effects that came w/ it |
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18th Amendment |
• prohibited alcoholic beverages/ transport/ /production/sale • Ratified Jan 1919 • 1933 - Ratified 21st Amendment to override b/c it violated 4th/5th Amendment and b/c more organized crime to get alcohol=overfull prisons & b/c corruption of law enforcement officials * Temperance movement won. Led to age of reckless behavior/ drinking during the 1920s and showed that amendments can override other amendments |
