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