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A United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, and the landscape surrounding the United States Capitol building.

Political organization based on patronage, the spoils system, and behind-the-scenes control; most have a boss; comprised of dedicated workers who depend on the patronage from government contracts and jobs.

A leader in a political party who does favors for urban residents in return for their votes; controls votes and dictates appointments; associated with corruption and organized crime; do not necessarily hold public office.

Envisioned a utopian socialist society where the government owned the means of production and distributed wealth equally among all citizens. Competition was irrelevant. The book inspired the creation of hundreds of Bellamy discussion clubs.

Began the first settlement house in the Midwest that came to be known as Hull House. She believed that urban problems resulted not from individual failures, but from unhealthy environment and that only the government could provide the services and the regulation that were necessary for future progress.

Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applies Christian principles to social problems, especially poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, poor schools, and the danger of war.

New York clergyman who preached social gospel, worked to alleviate poverty and make peace b/w employers and labor unions

Established in 1865 by Methodist minister William Booth and wife Catherine to bring salvation to the poor through food, etc

Founded Church of Christian Scientists and set forth basic doctrine of Christian Science

Merger of National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association; led by Stanton, Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. Strategy was to push for ratification of enough state suffrage amendments to force Congress to approve federal amendment

A young lecturer and educator who joined in the temperance movement and became famous for building the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She later became president of the union. Known for stressing religion and morality in her work.

U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded in 1893 as the Ohio Anti-Saloon League at Oberlin, Ohio, by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence.

A vehement foe of alcoholic beverages, Carry A. Nation would appear at a saloon, berate the customers and proceed to damage as much as she could with her hatchet. She was the scourge of tavern owners and drinkers in Kansas, as well as other states.

A former United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. In 1873 Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to supervising the morality of the public. Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Law, which made illegal the delivery or transportation of both "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material as well as any methods of, or information pertaining to, birth control.

Selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.