Ch. 5 People

Question 1

Elisha Otis

Answer 1

(1850) developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting rope broke
- > Adaptation to new way of living

Question 2

Fredrick Law Olmstead

Answer 2

Famous city planner/park designer> Fair mount Park , NY City Central Park (similar parks in Detroit MI; Washington D.C.; Palo Alto, CA)
-> solving some problems with urban growth

Question 3

Mark Twain

Answer 3

novelist who satirized American life in his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age. He depicted American society as having a rotten core covered with golden paint

Question 4

Joseph Pulitzer

Answer 4

Published “World”- morning paper, published “Evening World

Known for sensationalism

Question 5

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 5

competitor of Pulitzer who published the “Morning Journal”

-> same focus on sensationalism

Question 6

Horatio Alger

Answer 6

author who wrote about characters succeeded by hard work

-> “Horatio Alger Math”