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US History Chapter 17 People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lincoln Steffens | a muckraker who was managing editor of McClure's magazine known for uncovering social problems |
| Jacob Riis | a muckraker who was a photographer for the New York Evening Sun; took pictures of crowded, unsafe, rat-infested tenement buildings where the urban poor lived |
| Jane Addams | In 1899, opened Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. |
| Florence Kelley | In 1899, she helped found the National Consumers League. |
| Margaret Sanger | In 1916, opened the country's first birth-control clinic. |
| Ida B. Wells | In 1896, helped form the National Association of Colored Women. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | one of the country's first female school superintendents became the president of NAWSA in 1900 |
| Alice Paul | In 1917, she formed the National Women's Party which used public protest marches. |
| Booker T. Washington | African American leader who urged patience when it came to racial progress |
| W.E.B Du Bois | educated at Harvard; urged African Americans to demand immediately all the rights guaranteed by the constitution |
| Theodore Roosevelt | became the president of the United States in 1903 |
| John Muir | California naturalist whose efforts led Congress to create Yosemite National Park in 1890 |
| Gifford Pinchot | led the Division of Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture; recommended that forests be preserved for public use |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the United States |
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