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Other Progres People
Other important people of the Progressive Era
Question | Answer |
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In his 1911 book, Principles of Scientific Management, he explained his ideas for increasing efficiency by standardizing job routines and rewarding factory workers | Frederic W. Taylor |
A suffragette who was president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association; she argued that the vote would empower women to more actively care for their families in an industrial society | Carrie Chapman Catt |
This suffragette broke away from NAWSA in 1916 to form the National Woman's party. By using more militant tactics, she pressured the President and Congress for a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote | Alice Paul |
The most famous member of the Anti-Saloon League who would attack people at bars and cut up the saloons with a hatchet | Carrie Nation |
Attacked the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay | George Dewey |
President who opposed the annexation of Hawaii | Grover Cleveland |
President who annexed Hawaii and who asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain | William McKinley |
Led the Filipino insurrection against the Spanish and the US | Emilio Aguinaldo |
Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt; sent imperialist nations a note asking the to respect the principle of equal trade opportunities in Asia | John Hay |
Secretary of State under Lincoln and Andrew Johnson who advocated American expansion and arranged the purchase of Alaska | William Seward |
Leader of the birth control movement; founded the first birth control clinic in the US and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood | Margaret Sanger |
Governor of Wisconsin who believed in progressive reform | Robert LaFollette |
Speaker of the House whose arbitrary tactics led to resolutions in 1910 that limited the power of the Speaker | Joe Cannon |
Founder of Hull House, a settlement house to help the urban poor | Addams |
Led railway workers in strike against the Pullman Car Company and was imprisoned for disobeying an injunction; ran five times for the presidency for the Socialist party | Eugene V. Debs |
US labor leader and principal organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World; he advocated sabotage and violence and was eventually expelled from the Socialist party; escaped to Russia in 1921 | Bill Haywood |