People & Groups Flashcards
Russell Conwell
Pastor who wrote & spoke the “Acres of Diamonds” speech. Meaning of the speech was pro-capitalist “opportunity lurks in everyone’s backyard”
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Activist who fought for women’s suffrage & was the leader of the populist party.
Jane Addams
Nobel Peace Prize winner who was on the frontline of women’s suffrage
WEB DuBois
First black American to earn a PhD from Harvard. First sociologist to argue that the oppressed have agency. Super famous black intellectual, one of the first.
Marcus Garvey
Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Which was the first Black Nationalist movement (black Americans should be proud of their identity)
Hiram Evans
KKK grand wizard AKA president who brought the group further then it had ever been
Emilio Aguinaldo
First President of the Philippines
Bruce Barton
house of rep republican who built advertising agencies
A. Mitchell Palmer
US Attorney who basically started the red scare & pushed the palmer raids
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal regulation of the railroad industry
Knights of Labor
Union for workers fighting for 8 hour work day, no child labor, equal pay for genders, etc. 1869-1886
American Federation of Labor
national federation founded 1886- obtaining the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions.
Immigration Restriction League
Exactly what it sounds like. A Nativist group who wanted to restrict immigration into the U.S. to certain groups they deemed desirable. Lead to the Chinese exclusion act
Omaha Platform
Political agenda adopted by the populist party in 1892 at their Omaha, Nebraska convention
WCTU
Womens Christian Temperance Union- Fought for no liquor, and only abstinence.
