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- Woodrow Wilson
- 28th prez, "schoolmaster in Politics", studied at Princeton
- Jacob Riis
- lived in tenements, journalist and photographer who wanted to show how the poor and homeless lived in NY, "how the other side lives"
- Robert M La Follette
- pushed through Wisconsin Idea, regulated railroads and utilities
- Carry Nation
- US social reformer and temperance leader known for campaigns against alcohol
- Jane Addams
- founded the "hull house" got Nobel Peace Prize
- William Howard Taft
- 27th prez and chief justice, rejected offers of supreme court, passed 16th ammendment, highered tarifs and was a bad leader
- Frances Willard
- american educator and social reformer president of the Womans Christian Temperance Movement
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- suffragist and president of NAWSA, designed strategy for final victory of womans suffrage movement
- Upton Sinclair
- a social reformer, "The Jungle", informed society about unfair labor practices and unsanitary conditions in the packing houses
- Susan B Anthony
- social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
- Lincoln Steffens
- famous muckracker, wanted to expose dishonest buisnessmen
- WEB Du Bois
- beleived that blacks should strive for full rights immediatly, helped find the NAACP
- Alice Paul
- american suffragist leader, eventually allowed women to vote
- Ida Tarbell
- one of the leading muckrakckers during the Progressive era
- Theodore Roosevelt
- 26th president, passionate about international affairs, brought US into affairs with Europe and Asia, believed in destiny of US
- Florence Kelley
- helped persuade to prohibit child labor and limit number of hours women were forced to work, founded national child labor committe