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Progressive People
Question | Answer |
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Jane Addams | Founded Hull House |
Dorothea Dix | Helped the metally ill |
Margaret Sanger | Led reform for birth control |
Ida Tarbell | Exposed corruption of Standard Oil |
Susan B. Anthony | Influenced senator to propose 1st women's suffrage amendment |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Wrote document calling for women's rights |
Joseph Pulitzer | Yellow journalist |
Thomas Nast | Cartoonist who ridiculed Boss Tweed |
President Theodore Roosevelt | Trust-buster |
President Woodrow Wilson | Passed the Federal Reserve Act |
Robert M. LaFollette | Passed a law that taxed railroads on a more equal basis |
William "Boss" Tweed | Got his power from local immigrant neighborhoods |
Booker T. Washington | Believed African Americans needed to become educated |
W.E.B. DuBois | Demanded full political rights for African Americans at the Niagara Falls meeting |
Marcus Garvey | Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
Ida B. Wells | Led a crusade against lynching |
Frank Norris | Wrote about how the railroads dominated wheat farmers |
Upton Sinclair | Exposed unsianitary condition in Chicago's slaughterhouses |
Jacob Riis | Exposed slum condition through photos |
Lincoln Steffens | Described graft and corruption in city governments |