Key individuals chapter 19
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- 3. is famous for helping to found psychology as a formal discipline, for establishing the school of functionalism in psychology
- 8. was an American publisher, social arbiter of high society, and golf club owner. He was the founder of Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey and the first publisher of the Social Register.
- 10. invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
- 13. American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30 million and $200 million.
- 14. A progressive social reformer and activist and was on the frontline of the settlement house movement
- 17. is best known for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
- 18. proposed the single tax, that the state tax away all economic rent the income from the use of bare land but not from improvements and abolish
- 19. developed the concept of conspicuous consumption, or excessive consumption for the sake of signaling social status.
- 21. was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City
- 22. was an American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression.
- 23. wrote the majority of her short stories and novels from 1889 to 1904.
- 24. Regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture
- 25. invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires.
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- 1. served as the Minister of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio from 1882 to 1918.
- 2. an American humorist, novelist, and travel writer. remembered as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
- 4. She helped institute the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the United States Children's Bureau, the National Child Labor Committee, and the National Women's Trade Union League.
- 5. American author and journalist, best known for the adventure novels 'White Fang' and 'The Call of the Wild.
- 6. invented the light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture camera as improving Telegraph and telephone
- 7. helped build the formidable American steel industry
- 9. was a founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism, a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leader of the progressive movement in education in the United States
- 11. the first writer to put the African American experience in all its diverse forms before a broader audience
- 12. one of history's greatest magicians, was a master of illusions, stunts and death-defying escapes.
- 15. American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".
- 16. American writer best known for his novels 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
- 20. designed the first elevator that could lift and lower people and cargo safely.