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Dominant political machine of NY
Boss Tweed became its boss -
Architect, envisioned large public parks as a way to bring rural beauty to the modern city, to create a psychological sense of freedom, to provide moral uplift to urban life
In the 1850s, helped design NY's Central Park, first major public park of the US -
Head of Tweed Ring in NY
Most famous of bosses in political machines
Boss of Tammany Hall
Milked NYC out of millions of dollars
Arrested in 1871 and convicted of 104 counts of fraud and bribery -
Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Gave an American style to realism in fiction
First major American author born west of the MS
Drew on his river pilor experiences and a newspaper reporter in MS Valley experiences
Most famous book- Huck Finn criticized America's social order -
Ambitious publisher
acquired New York World in 1883 -
Acquired by Pulitzer in 1883
Had stories about fashion and etiquette and advice on attaining beauty
Expanded coverage to "advice letters" in 1883 -
Ambitious publisher
Purchased San Francisco Call in 1887 -
Wrote the Octopus
Influenced by Social Darwinism
Viewed life as a relentless struggle in which powerful social forces determined an individual's fate -
Viewed life as a relentless struggle in which powerful social forces determined an individual's fate
Wrote Sister Carrie
Influenced by Social Darwinism -
Influenced by Social Darwinism
Viewed life as a relenteless struggle in which powerful social forces determined an individual's fate -
Written by Anthony Comstock, who founded the NY Society for the Suppression of Vice
Banned from the mails any matter "designed to incite lust" -
Protestant middle-class women worked through this Union to organize a national crusade against alcohol
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Created by magazine illustrator Dana Gibson
Popular icon of the new woman
Self-sufficient, relished her freedom, played tennis, swung gold clubs, rode bikes -
Traces downward journey of an innocent country girl who becomes a prostitute after she is corrupted by urban pleasures
Written by Theofore Drieser -
Written by Frank Norris
About a predatory railroad that destroyed wheat growers in the nation's heartland