https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1 Essence Perkins en-us 2017-01-26 15:29:24 UTC 2026-01-19 21:51:31 UTC hello@padlet.com essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149632703 How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slumreveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.]]> 2017-01-26 15:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149632703 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149633686 A Danish immigrant, profoundly changed the urban landscape of New York City in the late-19th/early 20th centuries. Armed with a camera, Riis exposed many of the horrific living conditions of many poor and immigrant New Yorkers.]]> 2017-01-26 15:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149633686 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149634886 The railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical. This man was one of the few railroad owners to be just and not considered a "Robber Barron".]]> 2017-01-26 15:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149634886 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635059 Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL.]]> 2017-01-26 15:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635059 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635203 American businessman - founder of Standard Oil Co. (major monopoly).]]> 2017-01-26 15:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635203 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635349 Business man -refinanced railroads during depression of 1893 - built intersystem alliance by buying stock in competeing railroads - marketed US governemnt securities on large scale.]]> 2017-01-26 15:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149635349 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149637765 A girl typifying the fashionable ideal of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.]]> 2017-01-26 15:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149637765 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149638335 A middle-class woman dedicated to uplifting the urban masses; college educated (one of first generation); established the Hull House in Chicago in 1889 (most prominent American settlement house, mostly for immigrants); condemned war and poverty; won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931]]> 2017-01-26 15:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149638335 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149638568 Back leader;Demanded complete equality for blacks, social as well as economic, and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910.]]> 2017-01-26 15:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149638568 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149639206 Called in 1881to head the black normal and industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama; taught balck students useful trades so that they could gain self-respect and economic security; his self-help approach to solving the nation's racial problems was called "accomodationist".Become an internationally famous agricultural chemist,southern economy by discovering hundreds of new uses of the peanut, sweet potato, and soybean]]> 2017-01-26 15:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149639206 essence_perkins https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149641030 African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores.]]> 2017-01-26 15:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/essence_perkins/jj14onogilx1/wish/149641030