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Jane Addams

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Social reformer

Founder of the Settlement House Movement

Hull House built in the slums of Chicago

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Alexander Berkman

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Anarchist

Tried to kill industrialist HC Frick

Left for Russia

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Anthony Comstock

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Reformer

Passage of Comstock Law which was concerned with obscenity in US mail

Banned publications with low morals and profanity

Convicted people on moral charges and vices

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Ignatius Donnelly

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Leader of the Populist party

Minnesota congressmen

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Hamlin Garland

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Novelist who wrote about hardworking midwesterners

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Eugene V. Debs

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Leader of American Railroad Union during the Pullman strike

Arrested because he prevented the mail from being delivered (injunction)

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Washington Gladden

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Congregational Church leader

Used Christianity to fix problems in factories and slums

“Social Gospel”, Sermon on the Mount was the science of society

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Richard Olney

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Attorney General and Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland

Wrote cookbooks

Encouraged dispatching FEDERAl troops during Pullman strike

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Terence V. Powderly

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Leader of the Knights of Labor

Led many strikes for the 8 hour workday

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Made millions in the steamboat industry

Made cheaper and stronger railroads with steel

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Samuel Gompers

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President of the American Federation of Labor

Wanted cooperation between management and labor

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Mother Jones

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Devoted her life to the cause of workers

Leader of the Women’s Labor Movement

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Carl Schurz

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Wanted the merit system

major proponent of Civil Service Reform

Founder of the New York Evening Post

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Henry Clay Frick

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Largest coke-producing firms

Made an alliance with the Carnegie Brothers

Chairman during the Homestead Strike

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Frank Norris

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American Norris

Wrote about the lives of ordinary people

Naturalist

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Jacob Coxey

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Led unemployed workers to march from Ohio to Washington to draw attention to the plight of workers

Demonstrated the effects of the Panic of 1893

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Jay Gould

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Cornered the gold market

On Black Friday the gold market collapsed and he forced the government to buy gold

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Allan Pinkerton

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Founder of the Pinkerton Detectives

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Benjamin Harrison

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Republican president 1888

Opened the Billion Dollar Congress, which used up federal surplus by giving Civil War pensions

Supported a high protective tarriff

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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American landscape architect

Improved the environment of cities

Created Central Park

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W.E.B DuBois

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More militant than Booker T. Washington

Demanded complete social and economic equality for blacks

Helped found the NAACP

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Booker T. Washington

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Head of Tuskegee Institute

Said to accept segregation for the time being and rise up through hard work and education

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William Dean Howells

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Editor in chief of Atlantic Monthly

Wrote about stories of reformers in NYC

Wrote about controversial issues like divorce

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Marcus A Hanna

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Wealthy and conservative businessman

He ran McKinley’s front porch campaign in 1896

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William McKinley

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Defeated Williams Jennings Bryan in election of 1896

Supported a high protective tariff

Opposed unlimited silver

Conservative Republican

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Emma Goldman

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Russian immigrant and anarchist

Fought against capitalism and supported strikes

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Grover Cleveland

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1884 elected president

Democrat

Favored low tariff

2 non-consecutive terms

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George W. Plunkitt

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New York state senator

Tammany Hall ring

Presented the theory of “honest gaft” and using power to make money was fair

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Writer

Known for her books about Native Americans/Indians

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Horatio Alger

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American writer and minister

Chaplain of a lodging house for newsboys in NYC

Wrote about getting things through merit and not because born rich

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Henry George

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Wrote Our land and Lord Policy

Argued that the boom in the West was actually making most people poor and only a few rich

Book Progress and Poverty further developed this idea

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Thomas Nast

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Cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly

Powerful cartoons attacking the corrupt Tammany Hall

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John D. Rockefeller

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Robber baron CEO of Standard Oil corporation

Horizontal integration

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William Jennings Bryan

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Cross of Gold speech

Speech was about the coinage of silver

Ran for president lots of time (democrat)

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Edward Bellamy

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Published Looking Backward which depicted a socialistic society in the year 2000

Utopian socialism became moderately popular

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Thomas Edison

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Invented the electric light in 1879

Patented tons of things like the phonograph and moving picture

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Mary Elizabeth Lease

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Upbraided the moneyed aristocracy and denouncing the government for be influenced by Wall Street

Member of the Populist Party

“Raise less corn and more hell”

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Used color comic supplements that gave the name of “yellow journalism” to his scandalous paper

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Helped form the American Women’s Suffrage Association

Wanted women’s suffrage to be included in the 14th amendment

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JP Morgan

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Powerful banker

Eventually bought Carnegie Steel

Lent money to the government during the economic depression of 1893

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“Coin” Harvey

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Wrote the Silverites most influential piece of propaganda

Used common terms

Insisted that silver would eliminate debt

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Ida Tarbell

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McClure’s muckraker who exposed Standard Oil

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Chief Joseph

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Led the Nez Pearce to Canada instead of reservations

US troops came and brought them back to reservations

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Chester Arthur

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Took over when Garfield was assassinated

Signed the Pendleton Act for Civil Service Reform

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George A. Custer

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Discovered gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota

His calvary division was decimated by the Sioux at Little Big Horn

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William James

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Helped to create the Philosophical foundations for America

Pragmatism: practical application of using philosophical ideas to improve society

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