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23 Cards in this Set
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Denis Keaney
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Irish leader from SF who incited followers to abuse of Chinese immigrants.
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Charles Guiteau
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Assassinated Pres. Garfield in 1881. Insane office seeker, identified as a Stalwart.
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James Blaine
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Republican candidate for Pres in 1884. Corrupt!
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James Hill
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Built The Great Northern railroad. "Prosperity of RR depends on prosperity of area it served."
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Railroad mogul of New York Central network. Founded Vanderbilt University.
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Rockefeller
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oil baron. Horizontal integration. Trusts.
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J.P. Morgan
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banker; "interlocking directorates"
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James Duke
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formed American Tobacco Company in 1890
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Louis Sullivan
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developed sky scraper; "form follows function"
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Jane Addams
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established the Hull House;
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Florence Kelley
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lifelong battler for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers.
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Lillian Wald
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established Henry Street Settlement in New York in 1893.
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Mary Baker Eddy
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founded Christian Science in 1879; true practice of Christianity heals sickness
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Charles Darwin
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1859, On the Origin of the Species stated that humans had slowly evolved from lower forms of life.
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W.E.B. DuBois
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black leader who attacked BT Washington. Helped found NAACP in 1910
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Joseph Pulitzer
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leader in the techniques of sensationalism in St. Louis
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Henry George
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journalistic author, wrote Progress and Poverty in 1879, which attempted to solve the association of progress with poverty. According to George, the pressure of growing population on a fixed supply of land unjustifiably pushed up property values, showering unearned profits on owners of land. He supported a single tax.
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Edward Bellamy
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socialistic novel, Looking Backward, in which the year 2000 contained nationalized big business to serve the public interest.
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Horatio Alger
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Puritan-driven New Englander who wrote more than 100 volumes of juvenile fiction involving New York newsboys in 1866
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Walt Whitman
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poet; "O Captain! My Captain!"
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Mark Twain
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journalist, humorist, satirist, and opponent of social injustice. He recaptured the limits of realism and humor in the authentic American dialect.
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Theodore Dreiser
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wrote with disregard for prevailing moral standards.
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Ida. B. Wells
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helped launch black women's club which led to NAACW
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