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Progressive People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |