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| Harriet Tubman | "Moses" of the underground railroad helping slaves escape to the North |
| Frederick Douglass | Ex-slave, editor of The North Star paper, his intelligence revealed their potential to be more than slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle TOm's Cabin- revealed the harsh treatment of slaves, the separation of families, southerners said she lied |
| John Brown | abolitionist who tried to take guns from HArper's Ferry, Va. and give to slaves to go free, he was caught, southerners angry |
| Dorothea Dix | Crusader for the mentally disabled, people with mental illness were put in jails and given no treatment, she fought for treatment centers(asylums) |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott | Held the Seneca Falls Convention and drew up Declaration of Sentiments to demand equality for women in 1848 |
| Booker T. Washington | African American who set up the Tuskegee Institute to encourage black men to learn a skill/trade, don't push hard for full equality, move slow |
| W.E. B. Du Bois | Founder of NAACP, a group that supports African Americans in court battles, to demand full equality immediately, end all segregation, early 1900s |
| Marcus Garvey | African American supporter of a Back to Africa movement |
| Samuel Gompers | Head of the American Federation of LAbor Union, for skilled(craft) white men only |
| Jane Addams | established the Hull House for immigrants to obtain services(food, job info, medical care, English classes, day care etc.. |
| Jacob Riis | Author of How the Other Half Lives, exposed the poor tenement living conditions |
| Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt | Big Monopolists- steel, oil, banker, railroads/steamships |
| Eugene Debs | A socialist union leader- advocated for more regulation, involved in Pullman sleeping car strike, unsuccessful |
| Upton Sinclair | Author of THe Jungle- exposed the meatpacking plants |
| Ida Tarbell | Author of A History of the Standard Oil Company-exposed Rockefeller's ruthless tactics |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux indian leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn where Gen. Custer died, fought against reservations |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perce Chief, led people on trek to Canada, didn't make it, lived on reservation |
| John Muir | Naturalist, environmentalist, convinced T. Roosevelt to set aside more national forests |
| Susan B. Anthony | WOmen's Rights Advocate- head of NAtional American Women's Suffrage Association |
