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People&Organizations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Grange | The grange was an organization that’s goal was to assist farmers with difficulties such as, infestations, expensive farming machinery, railroad fares, high mortgage and interest rates, and falling prices of crops. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas. They moved for cheap land and low cost of living. They still faced difficulties but they were far less severe than they were in the south. |
| Andrew Carnegie | He led the expansion of the steel industry in the late 19th century. He was very rich and owned the US Steel Corporation. Philanthropist |
| John D. Rockefeller | He played an important role in the American oil industry. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company and is known as the wealthiest American. |
| Terence Powderly | He was an American labor union leader, and was the head of the Knights of Labor. |
| Samuel Gompers | An American labor union leader an d founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). |
| Eugene Debs | President of the American Railway Union and conducted a strike for higher wages. |
| Knights of Labor | First national labor union in the US. It started as a secret society to support the working people. It influenced the Grange which supported farmers in rural areas. |
| American Federation of Labor | An important branch off of the Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers was the president of the union. It is the longest lasting and most influential labor federation in the US. |
| Populist Party | An agrarian political party that emerged in 1891. They had support from farmers who faced political unfairness. They were also known as the People’s Party. |
| Boss Tweed | led New York's powerful democratic political machine in 1868. |
| Upton Sinclair | an American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. |
| Ida B. Wells | an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement |
| Susan B Anthony | a US teacher who was a leader of the campaign for women's right to vote. |
| WEB DuBois | an American civil rights activist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. |
| William Jennings | an American orator and politician, a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration |
| Robert LaFollette | U.S. leader of the Progressive Movement, supported legislative reform |
| Jacob Riis | a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist |
| Booker T. Washington | An African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama. |
| Jane Addams | the mother of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. |
| Frances Willard | an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| Sanford B Dole | a lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. He was president of Hawaii until it was annexed |
| NAACP | the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." |
| William Taft | the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. |
| Woodrow Wilson | led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations |
| John J Pershing | a senior United States Army officer. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I |
| American Expeditionary Force | a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I |
| Tuskegee Airmen | a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II |
| Flying Tigers | a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II |
| Navajo Code Talkers | transmitted sensitive wartime messages by speaking their native languages, in effect using them as codes |
| Franklin Roosevelt | an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States |
| League of Nations | an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace |
| Clarence Darrow | an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform |
| KKK | an American white supremacist hate group |
| Vernon Baker | a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War |
| Douglas MacArthur | an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II |
| Dwight Eisenhower | the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. |
| Harry Truman | the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe |
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