| A | B |
| Boss Tweed | Political Boss of NYC during the Gilded Age |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for women’s suffrage and set up the National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckracker journalist who wrote an expose on Standard Oil |
| Alice Paul | worker for woman’s suffrage but took a more radical stance. She was arrested for picketing the White House. |
| WEB DuBois | worked for African American rights and helped organize the NAACP |
| Woodrow Wilson | the 28th President of the United States. His program will be called the New Freedom |
| William McKinley | the 25th President of the United States. He was assassinated during his Presidency |
| Theodore Roosevelt | the 26th President of the United States. He was known as the “trustbuster.” |
| William Howard Taft | the 27th President of the Untied States- He supported many progressive ideas but will often be criticised by them. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Industrialist who founded Standard Oil. |
| Thomas Nast | Muckraker cartoonist who exposed Boss Tweed’s corruption |
| Robert La Follette | Governor of Wisconsin who implemented many progressive ideas which help make government more responsive to the people |
| Upton Sinclair | Muckraking journalist who wrote the Jungle and exposed the health violations of the meat packing industry. |
| Lincoln Steffens | Muckraking journalist who wrote the Shame of the Cities and exposed the corruption of the political machines |
| Jane Adams | She was a progressive reformer who created Hull House in Chicago in 1889. |
| William Jennings Bryan | was a Populist candidate who ran against McKinley and lost |