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Marisa Miladinovic Room: 205 3/31/09 Social Studies Page: 595 (1-5)

1. __//**Identify**//__:
 * Booker T. Washington** was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death.
 * Andrew Carnegie** was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman , and a major philanthropist . He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary 's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel.
 * Joseph Pulitzer** was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism.
 * Paul Laurence** was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 * Mary Cassatt** was an American painter and printmaker . She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

2. __//**Define**//__:
 * Land-Grant College** - A U.S. college or university (land-grant university) entitled to support from the federal government under the provisions of the Morrill Acts.
 * Yellow** **Journalism** - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
 * Realism** - Interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
 * Regionalism** - The principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
 * Ragtime** - Rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
 * Vaudeville** - Theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.

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