was an American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30 million and $200 million.

Alva Belmont, often referred to as Mrs. O.H. P. Belmont (1853-1933), was the most important financier of the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States.

was an American shipping and railroad magnate who acquired a personal fortune of more than $100 million. went to work for Thomas Gibbons as steamship captain. While in Gibbons’s employ (1818–29), Vanderbilt learned the steamship business and acquired the

was an American economist and statistician who broadened and helped modernize the character and scope of economics.

Montgomery Ward was an influential figure in American retail history, known for founding Montgomery Ward and Company, one of the first successful mail-order businesses.

was an American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism; he twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist candidate (1892).

She was born into slavery and later emancipated with her parents at the conclusion of the Civil War. Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women’s suffragist, and early civil rights movement leader.

was an American inventor and industrialist who was chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States.

was an American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1883). An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party.

The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who f

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William M. Tweed

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Term	Definition
William M. Tweed	was an American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30 million and $200 million.
Alva Vanderbilt	Alva Belmont, often referred to as Mrs. O.H. P. Belmont (1853-1933), was the most important financier of the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States.
Cornelius Vanderbilt	was an American shipping and railroad magnate who acquired a personal fortune of more than $100 million. went to work for Thomas Gibbons as steamship captain. While in Gibbons’s employ (1818–29), Vanderbilt learned the steamship business and acquired the
Francis A. Walker	was an American economist and statistician who broadened and helped modernize the character and scope of economics.
Montgomery Ward	Montgomery Ward was an influential figure in American retail history, known for founding Montgomery Ward and Company, one of the first successful mail-order businesses.
James B. Weaver	was an American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism; he twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist candidate (1892).
Ida B. Wells	She was born into slavery and later emancipated with her parents at the conclusion of the Civil War. Wells-Barnett was a journalist, anti-lynching activist, women’s suffragist, and early civil rights movement leader.
George Westinghouse	was an American inventor and industrialist who was chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States.
Frances Willard	was an American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (1883). An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of the national Prohibition Party.
Victoria Woodhull	The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who f

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