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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Grange | fraternal organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century |
| Andrew Carnegie | Industrialist, guy with the steel mills |
| John D. Rockefeller | 1870 built the Standard Oil Company |
| Terence Powderly | American labor leader Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924) |
| Samuel Gompers | most significant person in the history of the American labor movement (the effort of working people to improve their lives by forming organizations called unions). He founded and served as the first president of the American Federation of Labor. |
| Eugene Debs | 1893 Eugene V. Debs became president of the American Railway Union |
| Knights of Labor | Named the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor by its first leader,Uriah Smith Stephens, it originated as a secret organization meant to protect its members from employer retaliations |
| American Federation of Labor | Founded by Gompers, labor union |
| Populist Party | revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties. |
| Boss Tweed | |
| Uptown Sinclair | |
| Ida B. Wells | |
| Susan B. Anthony | |
| WED DuBois | |
| William Jennings Bryan | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Robert LaFollette | |
| was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. | |
| Writer Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. | |
| journalist, educator, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | |
| women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. | |
| American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. | |
| American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. | |
| American statesman, sportsman, conservationist and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. | |
| American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. | |
| Jacob Ruis | DescriptionJacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. |
| Booker T Washington | Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community. |
| Jane Addams | mother of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. |
| Frances Willard | American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." |
| Sanford B. Dole | lawyer and jurist in the Hawaiian Islands as a kingdom, protectorate, republic and territory. |
| NAACP | |
| William Taft | |
| Woodrow Wilson | |
| John J Pershing | |
| American Expeditionary Force | |
| Tuskegee Aimen | |
| Flying Tigers | |
| Navajo Code Talkers | |
| Franklin Roosevelt | |
| League of Nations | |
| Clarence Darrow | |
| KKK | |
| Vemon Baker | |
| Douglas MacArthur | |
| Dwight Eisenhower | |
| WWII and President | |
| Harry Truman | |
| 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. | |
| 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930) | |
| American statesman, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 Democrat | |
| DescriptionGeneral of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing was a senior United States Army officer. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front in World War I | |
| under General John J. Pershing launched their first major offensive in Europe as an independent army. Their successful campaign was a major turning point in the war for the Allies. | |
| group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces | |
| nickname of U.S. fighter pilots, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), who fought against the Japanese in China during World War II | |
| bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in their standard communications units of the Pacific theater. | |
| American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 | |
| intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War | |
| American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. | |
| Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, shortly after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction of the South. | |
| United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe | |
| 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president. |
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