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| W.E.B. DuBois | Founder of the Niagara Movement for full rights & opportunities for African Americans. Attended Fisk University |
| Theodore Roosevelt | W. McKinley's Vice President, against trusts, for Labor, dedicated to protecting nation's public lands. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | In 1869 became the founding president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | President whose government was marred by an inactive administration & political corruption. |
| Grover Cleveland | Democrat & President (1885-1889 & 1893-1897) Supported Civil Service Reform, dedicated Statue of Liberty, had mouth operation, had rubber jaw. |
| Wiliam Jennings Bryan | Presidential candidate in 1896. Democrat & Populist who wanted more money in circulation, help poor & farmers. |
| William M. "Boss" Tweed | In 1868 William M. Tweed gained control of New York's Democratic machine, known locally as - Tammany Hall. For the next 3 years, he and his underlings managed to steal millions of dollars of city funds. Usually by getting kickbacks. |
| Susan B. Anthony | In 1878 persuaded a senator to propose the first woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution. (It was voted down for the next 40 yrs.) |
| Thomas Nast | Brilliant political cartoonist, ridiculed Tweed in his cartoons for Harper's Weekly |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican choice during the 1876 election. He was a Civil War hero & reformer who promised to radically reform the civil service. He won over Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) |
| James A. Garfield | Republican reformer presidential victor in 1880 election. |
| Chester A. Arthur | Republican reformer vice president winner in 1880. |
| Benjamin Harrison | Republican presidesnt in 1888. He helped control inflation & pass the Sherman Antitrust Act. |
| William McKinley | Republican presidential victor in 1896. Practical & friendly he worked well with Congress & was re-elected in 1900. |
| Pendleton Civil Service Act | 1883 law set up a merit system controlled by the Civil Service Commission. |
| Lincoln Steffens | Reporter who wrote about the scandals in city politics in some of the first muckraking articles. |
| Ida Tarbell | Muckraking writer who attacked J. D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company for not following fair business practices. |
| Robert M. La Follette | Wisconsin Republican governor 1900-1906 & US senator 1906-1925. He challenged the power of party bosses. |
| Wisconsin Idea | By R. La Follettee this program set out to reduce the power of political machines & make use of cooperation between university experts and the state government. |
| John Dewey | Supporter of early childhood education in critical-thinking skills & problem solving. |
| Joseph McCormack | Under his leadership the American Medical Association was reorganized to bring together local medical organizations. |
| Florence Kelley | Led a progressive fight against child labor. Her plan was to investigate, educate, legislate, & enforce. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | In 1911 in New York City, the clothing factory when a fire broke out, the exit doors were locked, 146 died |
| Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | Started by socialists and union leaders in 1905, brought all workers together in one large industrial union. |
| William "Big Bill" Haywood | The IWW leader in 1905. |
| Frances Willard | Served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1879-1898. |
| American Woman Suffrage Association | Their goal was to get the vote for women. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Fought successfully for women's suffrage in the West. She mobilized more than 1 million volunteers for the movement. |
| Alice Paul | She founded what would become the National Woman's Party. |
| National Woman's Party (NWP) | Used parades, public demonstrations, civil disobedience, hunger strikes, and pickets to draw attention to its cause. |
| Booker T. Washington | Tried to improve economic conditions of African Americans. He founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabahama. |
| Ida B. Wells | Journalist believed that african Americans should protest unfair treatment. |
| (NAACP) National Assiciation for the Advancement of Colored People | Founded in 1909 they worked to inform white Americans about racial inequality and attacked racial discrimination through the court system. |
| National Urban League | Founded in 1911helped many African Americans make the transition from the Ssouth to northern cities. |
| National Association of Colored Women | Led by Mary Church terrell an antilynching activist. Favored women's suffrage and worked to protect the voting rights of african American men in the South. |
| Society of American Indians | In 1911 wanted to break up the reservations. |
