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People #3
US History Regents Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jacob Riis | A muckraker and author who used photography to show problems of the poor. Wrote “How the Other Half Lives” |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Helped create the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Their trial showed the anti-immigrant feelings that existed in the 1920’s |
| Margaret Sanger | A women’s rights reformer who was a strong advocate of birth control |
| Upton Sinclair | A muckraker who helped pass the Meat Inspection Act with his novel “The Jungle”, which exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A women’s rights reformer who held the Seneca Falls Convention for women in 1848 |
| Lincoln Steffens | A muckracker who wrote the novel “The Shame of the Cities” |
| Ida Tarbell | A muckracker and author who exposed Rockefeller’s unfair business practices of Standard Oil |
| Earl Warren | The chief justice of the Supreme Court when Brown v. Board of Education case was heard |
| Booker T. Washington | An African American civil rights leader who wanted to use vocational education as a way to gain racial equality for Blacks |