American History
chapter 15
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- Horatio Alger
- well-known, "Rags to Riches" author
- individualism
- anybody can be successful
- saloons
- social and political gathering place
- laissez-faire
- against government interference in business
- Andrew Carnegie
- believed that the rich owed society something
- Mark Twain
- America's first novelist
- social gospel movement
- improve city life using biblical ideals
- subways
- created to prevent overcrowding
- salvation army
- offered aid to the poor
- first pro baseball team
- Cincinnati Red Stocking
- Scott Joplin
- king of the ragtime riches
- James Naismith
- invented basketball
- ragtime music
- popular music grew from honky tonk
- Charles Darwin
- theory of evolution
- Samuel Clemens
- Mark Twains' real name