Unit 7: Important Figures

Question 1

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 1

Wrote “The Influence of Sea Power upon History”, argued that a nation is stronger with a functioning navey. U.S. Needed refuel stations located around the globe (Coal, friendly ports).

Question 2

Thostein Veblen

Answer 2

economist, “Theory of the Leisure Class”, condemned and criticized consumerism

Question 3

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 3

Wrote “The shame of the cities” revealing of the corruption in American Government, supported communism, governmental reform–municipal government

Question 4

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 4

First democratic president in long time. led USA into WWI. He proposed the 14 points. He attended the peace conference at Versailles.

Question 5

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 5

Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations

Question 6

A. Mitchell Palmer

Answer 6

Attorney General “fighting Quaker” rounding up suspects of Red Scare; drive to root out radicals

Question 7

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 7

26th President: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, “Square Deal,” Panama Canal

Question 8

Ida Tarbell

Answer 8

“The history of Standard Oil” Analyze Rockefeller’s business maneuvers and communicated to public. Secret rebates, bribing of legislature.

Question 9

Jacob Riis

Answer 9

Exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel “How The Other Half Lives”; poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC

Question 10

Robert LaFollette

Answer 10

American Republican, leader of populist party/progressive party. Face of reforming big business, regulated railroads, workman’s compensation, democracy focus

Question 11

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 11

Head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking. In prison, he read Socialist literature emerged as a Socialist leader

Question 12

George Creel

Answer 12

head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during WWI

Question 13

V.I. Lenin

Answer 13

Founder of the Russian Communist Party, est. a revolutionary soviet government based on a union of workers, peasants, and soldiers.

Question 14

William Howard Taft

Answer 14

President after Roosevelt. Did not reduce tariff, disappointed Roosevelt.

Question 15

Margaret Sanger

Answer 15

birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. termed birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States

Question 16

Upton Sanclair (The Jungle)

Answer 16

Exposed the conditions of meat industry, narrative of the industry, plight of the immigrant, everyone eats meat (beef trust). Change the quality of meat over working conditions.

Question 17

John Dewey

Answer 17

psychologist, and educational reformer. Studied the psychology of laborers to improve work.

Question 18

Alice Paul

Answer 18

leader of the National Woman’s Party and the Congressional Union, campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

Question 19

Warren G. Harding

Answer 19

29th President; Republican. promised return to normality after WW1 used efforts of make no enemies during his presidency.