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Jane Addams

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1860-1935-born: Illinois-social and political activist; one of the reformers of the progressive era

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Alexander Graham Bell

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1847-1922-born:United Kingdom-invented the telephone/hearing devices

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Jame G. Blaine

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1830-1893-born: Western Pennsylvania-an american, republican politician who represented Maine in the US House of Representatives

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Louis D. Brandeis

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1856-1941-born: Kentucky-an associate justice on Supreme Court

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William Jennings Bryan

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1860-1925-born: Illinois-liberal leader and magnetic orator; US Representative

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Andrew Carnegie

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1835-1919-born: Scotland-Self made steel tycoon; wealthiest 19th century US business man who donated to expansion of New York public library

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Samuel L. Clemens

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1835-1910-born: Missouri-(AKA Mark Twain) wrote the classic american novels

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Grover Cleveland

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1837-1908- 22nd and 24th presidentborn: New Jersey- President of the United States of America; governor; lawyer; mayor

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Eugene V. Debs

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1855-1926-born: Indiana-activist; labor organizer

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Thomas A. Edison

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1847-1941-born: Ohio-inventor of electric light bulb and phonograph

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Henry Ford

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1863-1947-born: Michigan-America’s foremost industrialist

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Emma Goldman

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1869-1940-born:Lithuania-activist for peace, free love and birth control

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Samuel Gompers

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1850-1924-born: United Kingdom-Cigar maker

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Ulysses S. Grant

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1822-1885-born: Ohio-US general(commander of Union Army) and US president

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John Hay

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1838-1905-born: Indiana-promoted ‘Open Door’ policy in China

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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1822-1893-born: Ohio-US President; helped in reconstruction building efforts

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William Randolph Hearst

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1863-1951-born: California-built Hearst castle; newspaper publisher

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Henry E. Huntington

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1850-1927-born: New York-owned the pacific electric railway

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Andrew Johnson

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1808-1875-born: North Carolina-first US President to get impeached

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Hiram Johnson

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1866-1945-born: California-leading American progressive and isolationist politician from California

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Robert M. LaFollette

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1855-1925-born: Wisconsin-member of US House of Representatives in early 19 hundreds

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Alfred T. Mahan

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1840-1914-born: New York-known as the most important strategist of the 19th century

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William McKinley

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1843-1901-born: Ohio-US President

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J.P. Morgan

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1837-1913-born: Connecticut-founded the banking company JP Morgan

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John Muir

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1838-1914-born: Scotland-Environmental Activist; established Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks

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Thomas Nast

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1840-1902-born: Germany-known as the father of American Cartoons; critiqued slavery and crime through his art

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Joseph Pulitzer

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1847-1911-born: Hungary-introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers

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John D. Rockefeller

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1839-1937-born: New York-CEO of the standard Oil Company; one of the world's richest business leaders

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Theodore Roosevelt

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1858-1919-born: New York-US President; remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation

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Margaret H. Sanger

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1879-1966-born: New York-early feminist and women's rights activist; coined the term 'birth control'

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William H. Seward

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1801-1872-born: New York-New York governor; US Senator; US Representative

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William T. Sherman

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1820-1891-born: Ohio-US Civil War Army General

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Upton Sinclair

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1878-1968-born: Maryland-Activist writer whose works uncovered social injustices

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William Howard Taft

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1857-1930-born: Ohio-US President; only person to have served as both a U.S. chief justice and president

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Ida Tarbell

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1857-1944-born: Pennsylvania-an American journalist best known for the breakup of the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly

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Nikola Tesla

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1856-1943-born: Croatia-engineer; contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system

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William M. Tweed

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1823-1878-born: New York-an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall

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Frederick Jackson Turner

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1861-1932-born: Wisconsin-Historian whose ideas formed the frontier thesis

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Booker T. Washington

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1856-1915-born: Virginia-Civil Rights Activists; one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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Ida B. Wells

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1862-1931-born: Mississippi-an African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States

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Woodrow Wilson

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1856-1924-born: Virginia-US President; leader of the Progressive Movement

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Wilbur and Orville Wright

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Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) &Orville Wright (1871-1948)-born: Ohio-developed the first successful airplane with eachother