Chapter 18 People

Henry Bowers/Bowers

A self educated lawyer that had a deep hatred for Catholics and foreigners. He founded the American Protective Association to stop immigrants from coming to the United States.

Gover Cleveland

Vetoed the literacy requirement for immigrants.

Frederick Law Olmsted
Calvert Vaux/Olmsted Vaux/Frederick Calvert/ Frederick Vaux/ Olmsted Calvert

Landscape designers that were very successful in terms of creating New York's central park. After they created the beautiful park they were recruited to make many more parks in other big cities.

Daniel Burnham/Burnham

Led the city beautiful movement and believed in only making big plans for cities. He had a lot of influence on large cities around the world causing a lot of them to be remade.

Jacob Riis/Riis

Danish immigrant and new york newspaper reporter and photographer. He created pictures and descriptions of tenement life in his book: How the Other Half Lives.

John A. Roebling/Roebling

Designed the Brooklyn Bridge.

Alice Hamilton/Hamilton/Alice

A physician that became an investigator for the U.S. Bureau of labor. She identified pollution in the workplace and showed that a lot of dangerous substances were disposed wrong which required legislation to solve this problem.

William M. Tweed/Tweed

Most famous corrupt city Boss. He was the Boss of New York City's Tammany Hall. He landed himself in jail after the countless bribes.

F.W. Woolworth/Woolworth

Opened five and ten cent store; with the store he was able to built a national chain of dry goods stores.

Richard Sears/Sears

Established Sears Roebuck and created a competitive consumer store that brought products to isolated areas

Montgomery Ward/Montgomery

Chicago based traveling salesman that distributed a catalog of consumer goods in association with the farmers association, the Grange. He offered thousands of items at low prices throughout the midwest and faced competition from sears roebuck. He changed the lives of isolated men that couldn't travel anywhere to get goods.

Marshall Field/Marshall

From Chicago, he created one of the first american department stores.

Florence Kelley/Florence/Kelly/Kelley

Social reformer that created the national consumers league.

Simon Pattern/Pattern

Economist who wrote "The Theory of Prosperity" (1902) and "The New Basis of Civilization" (1910).

Abner Doubleday/Abner/Doubleday

Credited for the creation of baseball although he dislikes sports and had very little to do with the actual creation.

Alexander Cartwright/Alexander/Cartwright

Discredited creator of baseball. He was a member of a New York City baseball club and defined a lot of rules and features that are still used today.

Albert Spalding/Spalding

Urged new teams to be created and created the national league.

Amos Alonzo Stagg/Amos/Stagg

Athletic direction and coach at the university of Chicago. He formed the Big Ten, which established the rules governing eligibility after many people that were cheating and bringing people to play that weren't students.

Theodore Roosevelt

Convened a white house conference on organized sports after 18 students died because of football injuries. Through the conference he created the NCAA (National College Athletic Association)

Dr. James A. Naismith/Dr/naismith

Invented basketball in Massachusetts but was a Canadian working as an athletic director for a local college.

John L. Sullivan

First modern boxing hero and heavyweight champion of the world.

George M. Cohan/Cohan

Irish vaudeville entertainer. He was the first great creator of musical comedies. He wrote Yankee Doodle Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag (which are still songs that are sung today)

Irving Berlin/Berlin

Wrote more than 1000 songs for the musical theater during his long career (God Bless America)

Florenz Ziegfeld/Ziegfield/Florenz

A New York promoter of vaudeville. He staged very elaborate vaudeville rather than what was popular (he also spent a lot of money on these acts).

Thomas Edison

Created the technology of the motion picture which spread to many different areas and contributed to a lot of seperate inventions.

D.W. Griffith/Griffith

Created groundbreaking motion pictures that were extremely racist and celebrated the Ku Klux Klan.

William Randolph Hearst/Hearst

Controlled nine newspapers and two magazines

Joseph Pulitzer/Pulitzer

Rival of william randolph hearst and popularized yellow journalism

Edward W. Bok/Bok

Took over the Ladies' Home Journal that targeted mass female audiences.

Mark Twain

Wrote many popular books that responded to civilization by evoking an older natural world

Stephen Crane/Stephen/Crane

He was a writer that wanted to recreate urban social reality. He wrote a powerful indictment of the plight of the working class. He published Maggie: A girl of the Streets that was a grim picture of urban poverty and slum life.

Theodor Dreiser/Dreiser

Encouraged writers to abandon the genteel traditions of earlier times and turn to the social dislocations and injustices. He advocated for injustice in books.

Upton Sinclair/Sinclair/Upton

Published The Jungle that exposed abuses in american industries.

Kate Chopin/Kate/Chopin

Southern writer that explored the oppressive features of writing. She wrote a book that was "too woke" because it showed a women being independent and abandoning her family.

Charles Darwin

Created a widespread theory of evolution; Said that human species had evolved from earlier life