IDs Flashcards
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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
8
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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
12
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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
14
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Ulysses S. Grant
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1822-1885
- born: Ohio
- US general(commander of Union Army) and US president
15
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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
20
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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
23
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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
1838-1914
- born: Scotland
- Environmental Activist; established Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks
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Thomas Nast
1840-1902
- born: Germany
- known as the father of American Cartoons; critiqued slavery and crime through his art
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Joseph Pulitzer
1847-1911
- born: Hungary
- introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers
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John D. Rockefeller
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
1858-1919
- born: New York
- US President; remembered for his foreign policy, corporate reforms and ecological preservation
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Margaret H. Sanger
1879-1966
- born: New York
- early feminist and women's rights activist; coined the term 'birth control'
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William H. Seward
1801-1872
- born: New York
- New York governor; US Senator; US Representative
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William T. Sherman
1820-1891
- born: Ohio
- US Civil War Army General
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Upton Sinclair
1878-1968
- born: Maryland
- Activist writer whose works uncovered social injustices
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William Howard Taft
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
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
1856-1943
- born: Croatia
- engineer; contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system
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William M. Tweed
1823-1878
- born: New York
- an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall
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Frederick Jackson Turner
1861-1932
- born: Wisconsin
- Historian whose ideas formed the frontier thesis
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Booker T. Washington
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
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
1856-1924
- born: Virginia
- US President; leader of the Progressive Movement
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) &Orville Wright (1871-1948)
- born: Ohio
- developed the first successful airplane with eachother
