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People
Progressive Era People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie | a Scottish industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel; “richest man in the world” |
| Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the telephone |
| Wright Brothers | inventor of the first airplane to fly |
| Ida Tarbell | a leader “muckracker” of her day, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism” |
| Alva Belmont | a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women’s suffrage movement. |
| William Howard Taft | an American politician; 27th president |
| Alice Paul | major leader of the women’s suffrage movement |
| Florence Kelley | major leader in the child labor movement |
| Eugene V. Debs | an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), |
| John D. Rockefeller | wealthy owner of the Standard Oil Trust |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the phonograph and the electric light bulb |
| Jane Adams | a founder of the Settlement House Movement; a founder of the Hull House; the first American woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize |
| John Dewey | an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer |
| Booker T Washington | major leader of the black rights movement |
| Francis Parker | a champion of progressive education in the United States. |
| Upton Sinclair | author of The Jungle, a book about the foods and medicines sold to poor people |
| Big Bill Haywood | major leader of the radical labor movement |
| George Pullman | an American inventor and industrialist; inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car |
| Henry Ford | inventor of the Model T Car |
| WEB Du Bois | major leader of the black rights movement |
| Carrie Nation | major leader of the temperance movement |
| Theodore Roosevelt | youngest man to become president; a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement; historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. |
| Robert La Follette | an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman; ran for president in his own Progressive Party in 1924 |
| Rough Riders | the first U.S. volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | major leader of the women’s suffrage movement |
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