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Jane Addams | She and Ellen Gates Starr founded Chicago's Hull House in 1889. |
Janie Porter Barrett | founded the Locust Street Social Settlement in Hampton, Virginia for African-Americans |
Mark Twain | ollaborated with Charles Dudley Warner to write a satirical novel called The Gilded Age |
Boss Tweed | another name for William M. Tweed |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican elected president in 1876 |
James A. Garfield | this independent candidate and reformer ran for president in 1880 and won |
Chester A. Arthur | he was nominated as vice-president for James Garfield because he was a Republican and not a reformer |
Charles Guiteau | he was a mentally unbalanced lawyer who assassinated president Garfield |
Grover Cleveland | in 1884 he became the first Democrat to win the presidency in 28 years |
Benjamin Harrison | his grandfather was a president, and he was supported by people who wanted higher tariffs when he became president in 1888 |
Grover Cleveland | he won the presidency in 1892 and is the only president ever elected for two non-consecutive terms |
James Pendergast (p. 268) | "Big Jim" was a saloonkeeper who became a powerful politician in Kansas City |
Thomas Nast (p. 269) | he was a cartoonist who brought down the Tweed Ring and its leader |
Denis Kearney (p. 259) | he was the founder of the Workingmen's Party and headed the anti-Chinese movement in California |
Theodore Roosevelt | it was under this president that the Gentlemen's Agreement was developed |
Prescott F. Hall (p. 258) | founder in 1894 of the Immigration Restriction League |
Jacob Riis | he was a Danish photographer who became a police reporter and helped uncover horrible living conditions in crowded city tenements |