Words have no soul, nor real inherent perception of life or death.
Some of the same, more of the new.
100
Published in 1859, this set off decades of battles between science and the church.
What is The Origin of Species?
100
She wielded a hatchet and broke bottles.
Who is Carrie Nation. Turns out she was against alcohol and violence. She was sober when she did all that!
100
He utilized sensationalism in journalism to gather readers, his eye sight however was no prize to be held.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
100
An overcrowded, dirty, place to live.
What is a dumbbell tenement?
100
This man donated over sixty million dollars to construct libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
This outlawed any and all salacious and sinful material.
What is the Comstock Law?
200
Writer of such classics as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
This GROUP of people came from southern and eastern Europe.
Who are the New Immigrants?
200
A school utilized to educate teachers.
What is a normal school?
200
A woman who perhaps should have been alive in the 1960's, promoted free love in 1871.
Who is Victoria Woodhull?
300
The Greatest Show on Earth.
What is the Barnum and Bailey Circus?
300
The new leader of NAWSA, she argued women should vote not because of "right" but because of the increased role in the public realm.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
300
A crusader in the settlement house movement, she created the most well known of these in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
The Chicago Daily News was one of these very cheap, mass produced newspapers.
What is the penny press?
300
Organized in 1874 this movement was lead by two women, the more saintly Frances W. Willard, and the bit crazy Carrie Nation.
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
400
Provided public land grants for the creation of public colleges and universities.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
400
She focused on the suffrage movement for African American women.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
The leader of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, he valued "self-help" as a way to overcome racism and discrimination.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
A type of printing press invented in 1885.
What is Linotype?
400
This favorite pastime of the 1890's was condemned by moralists because it exposed the ankles of women....for shame!
What is croquet?
500
A hero of "realism" he was known for his canvases of fisherman in the throws of the mighty ocean.
Who is Winslow Homer?
500
"We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth and Mind can heal, and this Mind must be divine, not human." Said the founder of the Church of Christian Science.
Who is Mary Baker Eddy?
500
The first African American to get a Ph.D. at Harvard, he was a champion of immediate equality for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
An individual who was against new immigrants entering the United States.
Who are nativists?
500
He invented basketball in 1891 at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.