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Key Individuals
Question | Answer |
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Ida B. Wells | lynching of African Americans and atrocities in the South |
Upton Sinclair | wrote 'The Jungle' |
Lincoln Steffens | wrote articles exposing corruption in city governments in St. Louis |
Big Bill Hayward | founded the Industrial Workers of the World |
John Dewey | a scholar that pushed for problem solving skills in schools over mere memorized facts |
Susan Blow | opened the first kindergarten in St. Louis |
James Garfield | president that wanted reform, but was shot in the head by Charles Guiteau |
Grover Cleveland | president during reform |
Teddy Roosevelt | believed in the square deal (interests of business people, consumers, laborers, and the public were heard) |
William Howard Taft | favored business regulation and was friends with Roosevelt but angered him when he had a lot of different ideas |
Woodrow Wilson | won the democratic vote and pushed for reforms |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | co-founded the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
Susan B. Anthony | co-founded the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
Carrie Chapman Catt | the president of NAWSA in 1900 |
Alice Paul | founded the National Women's Party (NWP) and thought there needed to be a more aggressive technique to getting women's voices heard |
Eugene Debs | thought that the government could protect workers |
Samuel Gompers | president of the AFL |
Robert LaFollette | responsible for beginning to use outside experts to help devise laws and help with agencies |
Marie Van Vorst | working conditions of children |
Florence Kelley | working conditions |
Booker T. Washington | thought that to achieve fairness, you must better yourself |
W.E.B. DuBois | thought that you must protest to get equality |
Francis Willard | led the Union to organize 10,000 branches of WCTU |
Carry A. Nation | HUGE women's activist |
Alexander Graham Bell | metal detector |
Thomas Edison | x-ray |