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27 Cards in this Set
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William McKinley
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President
Assassinated in 1901 |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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became President after McKinley died
Political progressive favored government action to curb abuses and secure fair treatment for all Americans |
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George Brown Tindall
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"The cure for the ills of democracy was more democracy".
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William Jennings Bryan
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favored "anything that makes the government more democratic, more popular in form, anything that gives the people more control over government"
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Susan B. Anthony
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led crusade for women's suffrage
favored equal rights for women |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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women's suffrage
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John Bunyan
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wrote Pilgrim's Progress
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Lindell Steffens
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muckraker
McClure's (magazine) exposed municipal corruption in St. Louis |
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Ida Tarbell
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muckraker
History of the Standard Oil Company |
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Robert La Follette
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Republican leader
pressed for reforms such as direct primary and railroad regulation |
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Eugene Debs
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ran for President on Socialist ticket five times
demonstrated need for reform |
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Upton Sinclair
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muckraker
wrote The Jungle exposed conditions in meatpacking industry |
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Gifford Pinchot
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head of National Conservation Commission
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Booker T. Washington
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black leader
Up from Slavery president of Tuskegee Institute |
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W.E.B. DuBois
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formed NAACP along with others
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William Howard Taft
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won 1908 Presidential election
reformist |
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Joseph Cannon
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Speaker of the House under Taft
dictatorial Members of Congress voted to reduce his power. |
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Woodrow Wilson
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won 1912 Presidential election
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Henry Ford
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perfected assembly line method of production
Model T car |
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Wright Brothers
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invented airplane
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George Washington Carver
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black scientist and teacher
discovered more than 200 uses for the peanut |
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Carlos Juan Finlay
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Cuban
did research on Yellow Fever |
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Walter Reed
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discovered mosquitos were cause of Yellow Fever
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William C. Gorgas
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launched campaign at destroying nesting grounds of mosquitos - eliminated yellow fever in Havana
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John Dewey
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leading progressive educator
"The child becomes the sun about which the appliances of education revolve". leader of secular humanism movement |
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Walter Rauschenbusch
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Baptist minister in NY
wrote Christianity and the Social Crisis proponent of social gospel |
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Benjamin Warfield
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professor at Princeton
responded to attacks on faith defended orthodox Christianity |
