Am City Test 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Samuel Slater | Moved here from Europe. Established Spinning Mills and towns. Considered the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | Created the Boston Manufacturing Company. First mill where raw cotton was made into cloth. Created Ideal way to lay out a textile town |
| George Pullman | Founder of the Pullman Company, Creates a town around the factory that he owns |
| Pullman Strike | Occurs when Pullman raises the rent in his town without raising their wages. Strike occurs. Town ordered to be sold by the courts |
| US Steel | First major steel company. Founded in Gary, IN |
| George Cadbury | Founder of a cocoa and chocolate company |
| Morgan Park | Community created by US steel in Duluth. Plant there shut down for pollution in 1970 |
| Henry Hobsan Richardson | Popular architect in 19th Century |
| William Le Baron Jenney | Designed the first skyscraper |
| Louis Sullivan | Worked under Jenney for a short while, lots of work with skyscrapers |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | architect credited with designing over 1000 projects with over 500 of those being built |
| Plan of Chicago | made by Burnham and Bennett |
| Paul Kellog | Writer of the "Pittsburg Survey" |
| Daniel Hale Williams | First black cardiologist, founded the first non segregated hospital |
| Chicago Defender | Largest black weekly newspaper |
| Oscar De Priest | First black man elected to congress |
| Adam Clayton Powell | represented Harlem in the House of Representatives. First black man elected to congress from new york |
| Mary White Ovington | co founder of NAACP |
| Urban League | Black Civil rights organization |
| William Lewis Bulkley | Founded the Committee for Improving the Industrial Condition of the Negro |
| William Marcy Tweed | Leader of Tammany Hall political machine. Corrupt leader doing things such as voting fraud. Prosecuted and put in jail |
| Mugwump | Tried to get a "good guy" elected |
| National Municipal League | tried to make cities more democratic instead of the old boss system |
| Lincoln Steffens | Writer in the late 19th, early 20th century. Became famous for writing about the Ames corruption |
| Albert Alonzo Ames | mayor of Minneapolis. Became popular by helping people, got in the government and started allowing criminal activities and accepting bribes. Tried and convicted |
| Glaveston, TX | Site of major hurricane |
| Staunton, VA | First place to try a city Manager |
| Richard S Childs | Creator of City Manager concept |
| Hazen S. Pingree | mayor of Detroit, governor of MI, ran on a platform of removing corruption. Did things such as expand welfare programs |
| Tom Johnson | mayor of Cleveland, promoted things such as lower trolly fares and public baths. |
| Samuel Snively | Mayor of Duluth |
| Fiorello La Guardia | Mayor of New York, reforms undermine Tammany Hall |
| Pendergast Machine | Rose to power in Kansas City, corrupt, gained wealth during great depression and provided people with jobs. Tom Pendergast convicted of tax evasion |
| Anton Cermak | Founder of Cook County Democratic Party |
| Patrick Nash | chairman of Cook County Democratic Party |
| Edward Kelly | Mayor if Chicago after Anton Cermak |
| Martin Kennelly | Mayor of Chicago |
| Richard Daley | head of Cook county Democratic Party and mayor of chicago. Gave shoot to kill orders during riot |
| Alderman | term used to describe someone who is on a city council |
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