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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 president
    born: 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

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