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Chapter 6: People

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Robert M. La Follette
Progressive American politician; he was active in local Wisconsin issues and challenged party bosses. As governor, he began the reform program called the Wisconsin Idea to make state government more professional
Upton Sinclair
published How the Other Half Lives; raised public awareness of unsanitary conditions at meatpacking plants which led to consumer-protection laws
Florence Kelly
Active in the settlement house movement and led progressive labor reforms for women and children.
Carry Nation
took extreme measures to further her cause by entering saloons in her native state of Kansas and smashing bottles of alcohol with a hatchet
Frances Willard
Temperance and women's suffrage advocate, she was a leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Prohibition Party
Lincoln Steffens
Muckraker and managing editor of McClure's magazine, he wrote about government corruption in his 1904 book, The Shame of the Cities
Theodore Roosevelt
Focused his efforts on trust busting, environmental conservation, and strong foreign policy
Jane Addams
the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
Carrie Chapman Catt
suffragist who believe that women had to work with lawmakers to win the vote; lead NAWSA
William Howard Taft
angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; lost Roosevelts support and was defeated for a second term
WEB Du Bois
African American educator, editor, and writer; he led the Niagara Movement, calling for economic and educational equality for African Americans. He helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic candidate who won the election of 1912; refrom plan called the New Freedom; passed the Federal Reserve Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act
Alice Paul
American social reformer, suffragist, and activist; founder of NWP that wroked to obtain women's suffrage
Jacob Riis
Newspaper reporter, reformer, and photographer; his book How the Other Half Lives shocked Americans with its descriptions of slum conditions and led to tenement housing legislation in New York
Susan B. Anthony
active in the temperance, abolitionist, and women's suffrage movements and was co-organizer as well as president for the NWSA
Ida Tarbell
Investigative journalist; she wrote a report condemning the business practives of John D. Rockefeller in McClure's magazine. These articles became the basis for her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company

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