Flashcards Mod 5 Progressivism (Advanced)

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Architect, who redesigned Chicago, creating elegant parks and sandy beaches along Lake Michigan and designed the 285 foot tall Flatiron Building in New York City.

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Daniel Burnham

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Landscape architect, who designed parks for urban areas and co-designed Central Park in New York City.

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Frederick Olmsted

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New York City reporter who wrote the book How The Other Half Lives, exposing the horrors of tenement housing.

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Jacob Riis

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New York Morning Journal and the San Francisco Examiner newspaper publisher, who used “yellow journalism” to stir up sentiment in favor of the Spanish–American War.  Used exaggerated stories and personal scandals to sell more newspapers.

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William Randolph Hearst

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Republican President who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act which outlawed trusts and Monopolies, and signed the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890, the highest tariff at that point of U.S. history.

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Benjamin Harrison

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African American leader who founded the Tuskegee Institute; encouraged African Americans to learn trades and prove their economic worth.

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Booker T. Washington

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African American scholar and leader, encouraged African Americans to get a liberal arts education to become well-educated leaders, and founded the NAACP and NIagara Movement.

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W.E.B. DuBois

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Journalist who wrote The Jungle in 1906.  He wanted to show how stockyards in Chicago exploited its workers, but the book was known for showing the sickening conditions of the meatpacking industry.

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Upton Sinclair

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Political activist and women’s rights leader in the late 1800s, who voted illegally for president in 1872 and opposed the 14th and 15th amendments as long as women were denied suffrage.

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Susan B. Anthony

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Democratic President during the 18th (prohibition) and 19th Amendments, campaign was called New Freedom, created the Federal Reserve System, and only President with a Ph D.

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Woodrow Wilson