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sojourner truth
United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
Helen hunt jackson
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)
robert E. Lee
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
jane addams
American social worker and activist. Co-founder of Hull-House, an organization that focused on the needs of immigrants. Helped find American Civil Liberties Union. She won the Nobel peace Prize.
boss tweed
Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine
geronimo
Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)
george custer
us army commander during the civil and indian wars. led the defeat of the indian tribes in little big horn
abraham lincoln
16th President of the United States
charles darwin
English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
horatio alger
Author (106 books) who spread ideas of becoming the fittest individual supporting aspects of Social Dawinism.
web dubois
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
jacob riis
muckraker and photographer who wanted to show how the poor and homeless lived
booker T. washington
was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. Said African Americas must work patiently to move up in society.
ida tarbell
A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil.
william mckinley
25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist
John D. rockefeller
an American industrialist and philanthropist. He revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870 he founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he retired in the late 1890s. He kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first U.S. dollar billionaire, and is often regarded as the richest person in history
woodrow wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize
james garfield
Thought that people should get government jobs on the basis of merit or ability rather then as a political reward he also found himself swamped by people seeking patronage.
J.P Morgan
an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.
upton sinclair
Author of "The Jungle" - a book describing the unhealthy conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago
theodore roosevelt
26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War
john brown
Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he ws tried, convicted of treason and hung... he became a martyr.
andrew johnson
17th President of the United States, 17th President of the US. Democrat and a slave-owner who took office after Lincoln was assassinated. He was a Southern politician who opposed secession. Few believed he would actually become President; it was a surprise to the population. Poor boy with little education who was talented at public speaking
ulysses S. grant
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.
lincoln steffens
United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)
cornelius vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
stonewall jackson
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
Frederick douglass
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895)
william jennings bryan
democratic candidate that the Populist Party suuported
harriet beecher stowe
United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
william lloyd garrison
United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
jefferson davis
President of the Confederate States of America
harriet tubman
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
william tecumseh sherman
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war
nat turner
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia

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