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- elisha otis
- invented iron supports-together with safety elevator in 1852
- mark twain
- was a realist and a regionalist
- emma lazarus
- wrote poem for statue of liberty
- william randolph hears
- new york: morning journal
- booker washington
- tuskegee institute
- julia clifford lathrop
- helped found immigrant protective league spoke out for immigration
- charles dudley warner
- wrote book called the gilded age in 1873
- horatio alger
- books: how to become succesful
- new immigrants
- 1880s eastern/southern europe
- scott joplin
- ragtime
- thomas edison
- movies
- dr james naismith
- basketball
- old immigrants
- before 1865, northern/western europe
- joseph pulitzer
- purchased new york world
- fredrick law olmstead
- designed NYCs central park as well as several parks in boston
- george washington carver
- the peanut guy. went to school at tuskegee institute
- grace abbott
- helped found immigrant protective league spoke out for immigration
- edith wharton
- wrote about upper-class
- jane addams
- famous settlement house: hull house in chicago
- annie moor
- first girl to come through ellis island
- william lebaron jenney
- built worlds first skyscraper in 1884 (10 story building in chicago)
- john dewey
- progressive education
- john philip sousa
- bandleader, marches
- paul laurence dunbar
- poet, novelist. wrote about black's experience
- stephen crane
- wrote about city slums: maggie. and about civil war: the red badge of courage
- jack london
- prtrayed lives of miners and hunters in the northwest
- mark twain
- wrote book called the gilded age in 1873
- andrew carnegie
- paid for libraries
- jacob riis
- wrote: how the other half lives. talked about terrible conditions of slums and tenements