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Key People
Key people from the Guilded and Progressive Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Susan B. Anthony | She was the head of the NWSA (National Women's Suffrage Association) |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | She headed the NWSA (National Women's Suffrage Association) |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | She was the head of the NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Association), which was the result of the NWSA and the AWSA combining |
| Alice Paul | She was a radical women's rights activist who did demonstrations, such as chaining herself to the White House fence to make her points. |
| Margaret Sanger | She wanted to get rid of the laws that prohibited abortion and birth control. She stared a group that later became "Planned Parenthood" |
| Jane Addams | She ran the Hull house settlement in Chicago, and later helped in the NAACP (National Association of Colored People) |
| Mary Harris Jones | She was also known as "Mother Jones", and she wanted to put an end to Child Labor in America. |
| Jacob Riis | He wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives", which was a book describing how the poverty of America lived, in their cramped tenements. |
| Upton Sinclair | He wrote "The Jungle", which described the meat packing industry in Chicago. This triggered acts like "The Meat Inspection Act", and the "Pure Food and Drug Act". |
| Jacob Coxey | He led "Coxey's Army" to the White House steps to speak, but was not allowed. He wanted the government to give out jobs to all the unemployed. |
| William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed | He was the leader of "Tammany Hall",an extremely corrupt Political Machine. |
| Thomas Nast | He was a political Cartoonist that often drew about Tammany Hall or 'Boss' Tweed. |
| Booker T. Washington | He said the "Atlanta Compromise", which stated that Blacks could be socially separate, but work together economically. He also encouraged blacks to temporarily accept segregation. |
| W.E.B. Dubois | He thought that Booker T. Washington was "leading the way backwards for blacks". He was also the first black man with a PhD |
| Ida Tarbell | She wrote an expose on the standard Oil Company, and was considered a "muckraker" |
| Samuel Gompers | He founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the AFL's powerful president from 1886 until his death in 1924. |
| Eugene Debs | He was the head of the socialist Party. He ran in the 1912 election, against Wilson, Taft, and Roosevelt, earning 6% of the votes. |
| Robert LaFollette | He was a congressman, and a progressive Governor of Wisconsin, helping it to be known as "The Laboratory of Democracy". He specifically established the Direct Primary System, to get around Political Machines. |
| John Dewey | He was an educational reformer, who saw learning and education as a necessity of life. |
| William Jennings Bryan | He ran against McKinley for the presidency, campaigning "Free Silver" in order to gain farmer support. |
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