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93 relations: American frontier, Anaconda Copper, Archaeology, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Asphalt, Barbados, Business history, Butte, Montana, Carl Bridenbaugh, Cattle drive, Charles V. Chapin, Charleston Library Society, City manager, Cleveland, College of Charleston, Copperhead (politics), David Tyack, Dayton, Ohio, Denver, Detroit, Dime novel, Embargo Act of 1807, Entrepreneurship, Erie Canal, Factory system, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Frank Orren Lowden, Galveston, Texas, Garden city movement, Gary B. Nash, Hazen S. Pingree, Herbert Hoover, Hinterland, History of agrarianism, History of architecture, History of Boston, History of Chicago, History of Illinois, History of Los Angeles, History of New York City, History of New York City (1784–1854), History of Philadelphia, History of the United States, Hooverville, Huguenots, Hull House, Industrialisation, Jane Addams, Jon C. Teaford, Local history, ..., Los Angeles, Louisiana Purchase, Louisville, Kentucky, Memphis, Tennessee, Miasma theory, Mining community, Modernization theory, Mugwumps, National Civic League, New Amsterdam, New Deal, New Orleans, New York City draft riots, Oscar Handlin, People's Party (United States), Planter class, Political machine, Progressive Era, Quasi-War, Railhead, Richard Clement Wade, Robert M. La Follette, San Antonio, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sitka, Alaska, Social history, Stephan Thernstrom, Suburb, Sugar plantations in the Caribbean, Tammany Hall, The Dakota, Toledo, Ohio, Tom L. Johnson, Union (American Civil War), Urban geography, Urban history, Urban sociology, Urbanism, Urbanization, War of 1812, Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Idea, Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Expand index (43 more) »
American frontier
The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.
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Anaconda Copper
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, part of the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, was an American mining company.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr. (February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history.
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Asphalt
Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Business history
Business history deals with the history of business organizations, methods, government regulation, labor relations, and impact on society.
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Butte, Montana
Butte is a town in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States.
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Carl Bridenbaugh
Carl Bridenbaugh (August 10, 1903 – January 6, 1992) was an American historian of Colonial America.
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Cattle drive
For the 1951 film, see Cattle Drive (1951 film).
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Charles V. Chapin
Charles Value Chapin, M.D. (January 17, 1856 – January 31, 1941) was an American pioneer in public health research and practice during the Progressive Era.
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Charleston Library Society
The Library Society's first permanent address, which it occupied from 1792 to 1835, was within what is now the Charleston County Courthouse at 82 Broad St. The Library Society was located at 50 Broad St. from 1835 to 1914. The Library Society has been located at 164 King St. since 1914. The Library Society has expanded into an adjacent building at 160 King St. starting in 1992. Charleston Library Society, founded in 1748, is a subscription library in Charleston, South Carolina.
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City manager
A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
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College of Charleston
The College of Charleston (also known as CofC, The College, or Charleston) is a public sea-grant and space-grant university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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Copperhead (politics)
In the 1860s, the Copperheads were a vocal faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
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David Tyack
David B. Tyack (November 17, 1930 – October 27, 2016) was the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.
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Dime novel
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions.
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Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.
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Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).
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Factory system
The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labour.
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Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia) (December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician.
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Frank Orren Lowden
Frank Orren Lowden (January 26, 1861 – March 20, 1943) was a Republican Party politician who served as the 25th Governor of Illinois and as a United States Representative from Illinois.
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Galveston, Texas
Galveston is a coastal resort city on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Garden city movement
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
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Gary B. Nash
Gary Baring Nash (born July 27, 1933) is an American historian.
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Hazen S. Pingree
Hazen Stuart Pingree (August 30, 1840 – June 18, 1901) was a four-term Republican mayor of Detroit (1889–1897) and the 24th Governor of the U.S. State of Michigan (1897–1901).
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
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Hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).
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History of agrarianism
Agrarianism is social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.
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History of architecture
The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates.
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History of Boston
The history of Boston plays a central role in American history.
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History of Chicago
The history of Chicago, Illinois, has played a central role in American economic, cultural and political history and since the 1850s has been one of the most dominant Midwest metropolises.
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History of Illinois
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, and finally, its growth into one of the most populous and economically powerful states of the United States.
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History of Los Angeles
The written history of Los Angeles city and county began with a Colonial Mexican town that was founded by 11 Mexican families which were known as "Los Pobladores" that established a settlement in Southern California that changed little in the three decades after 1848, when California became part of the United States.
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History of New York City
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524.
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History of New York City (1784–1854)
The history of New York City (1784–1854) started with the creation of the city as the capital of the United States under the Congress of the Confederation from January 11, 1785, to Autumn 1788, and then under the United States Constitution from its ratification in 1789 until moving to Philadelphia in 1790.
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History of Philadelphia
The written history of Philadelphia begins on October 27, 1682, when the city was founded by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
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History of the United States
The history of the United States began with the settlement of Indigenous people before 15,000 BC.
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Hooverville
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America.
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Huguenots
Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.
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Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
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Industrialisation
Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
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Jane Addams
Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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Jon C. Teaford
Jon C. Teaford is Professor Emeritus in the History Department at Purdue University.
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Local history
Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it often concentrates on the local community.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Miasma theory
The miasma theory (also called the miasmatic theory) is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, ancient Greek: "pollution"), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air.
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Mining community
A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners.
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Modernization theory
Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies.
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Mugwumps
The Mugwumps were Republican political activists who bolted from the United States Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884.
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National Civic League
The National Civic League is an American nonpartisan, non-profit organization founded in 1894 with a mission to advance civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities.
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New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam, or) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New York City draft riots
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
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Oscar Handlin
Oscar Handlin (September 29, 1915 – September 20, 2011) was an American historian.
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People's Party (United States)
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States.
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Planter class
The planter class, known alternatively in the United States as the Southern aristocracy, was a socio-economic caste of pan-American society that dominated seventeenth- and eighteenth-century agricultural markets through the forced labor of enslaved Africans.
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Political machine
A political machine is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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Quasi-War
The Quasi-War (Quasi-guerre) was an undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800.
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Railhead
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Richard Clement Wade
Richard Clement Wade (July 14, 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa – July 18, 2008 in Manhattan, New York) was an American historian and urban studies professor who advised many Democratic politicians and candidates, including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern.
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Robert M. La Follette
Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician.
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San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe (or; Tewa: Ogha Po'oge, Yootó) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Sitka, Alaska
The City and Borough of Sitka (Sheetʼká), formerly Novo-Arkhangelsk, or New Archangel under Russian rule (Ново-Архангельск or Новоaрхангельск, t Novoarkhangelsk), is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past.
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Stephan Thernstrom
Stephan Thernstrom (born November 5, 1934) is the Winthrop Research Professor of History at Harvard University.
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean
Sugar was the main crop produced on plantations throughout the Caribbean through the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St.
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The Dakota
The Dakota, also known as Dakota Apartments, is a cooperative apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
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Tom L. Johnson
Tom Loftin Johnson (July 18, 1854 in Georgetown, Kentucky – April 10, 1911 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American industrialist, Georgist politician, and important figure of the Progressive Era and a pioneer in urban political and social reform.
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Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.
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Urban geography
Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes.
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Urban history
Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization.
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Urban sociology
Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas.
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Urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.
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Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.
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Wisconsin Idea
The Wisconsin Idea is the policy developed in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that fosters public universities' contributions to the state: "to the government in the forms of serving in office, offering advice about public policy, providing information and exercising technical skill, and to the citizens in the forms of doing research directed at solving problems that are important to the state and conducting outreach activities".
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_urban_history
