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23 Cards in this Set
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Presented Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls. Initiated first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements. |
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Benjamin Pap Singleton |
"Back to Africa Movement" Organized the exodusters which are black colonists in Kansas |
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Andrew Johnson |
Implemented Reconstruction. First president to be impeached |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
Govt. agency that aided former slaves. Taught former slaves to read and write. |
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Black Codes |
Laws passed in the south to restrict rights of blacks. |
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George Armstrong Custer |
General at the Battle of Little Bighorn where he and all his men died. "Custer's Last Stand" |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
Supreme court decision upholding racial segregation. "seperate but equal" |
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Margaret Sanger |
Birth control activist. Supported eugenics which is reducing the reproduction for people who seem unfit. |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
Leader for the campaigning of the 19th amendment. Gave women right to vote. |
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Ida B. Wells |
Documented lynchings and was a women suffrage activist |
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Booker T Washington |
Civil Rights activist who pushed for black progress in society. Gave speech. |
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Eugene Debs |
Helped found the American Railroad Union (ARU) and led the Pullman Strike. |
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Haymarket |
Police massacre of strikers pushing for an 8 hour day in Chicago. |
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Pullman Strike |
ARU against Pullman company. Shut down much of Nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit. Workers response to cut in wages. |
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Knights of Labor |
Largest labor organizations. Pushed for 8 hour day. |
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Free silver |
Alternative to gold standard. More inflated than gold. |
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muckraker |
Journalists who took the slightest bit of bad in a company and made it headline. Include Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. |
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Alice Paul |
Suffragist who was leader for the campaign of the 19th amendment. Helped strategize "Silent Sentinels" |
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Great Migration |
Movement of 6 mil blacks from the south to the north and west |
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Nativism |
Opposes immigration |
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Teddy Roosevelt |
Manly. Pushed for men to have manly jobs. Success in progressive movement. |
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Woodrow wilson |
Leader of Progressive Movement. Gave 8 hour work day to railroad workers. |
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William Jennings Bryan |
"The Great Commoner" Against Darwinism and always for the people. |
