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Ch 18
Progressive Era- People only
6
History
10th Grade
06/13/2006

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Ida Tarbel
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Muckraker, wrote "History of the Standard Oil Company" her father went bankrupt because of it
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W.E.B Dubois
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Member of the NAACP, started the magazine "The Crisis"
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Florence Kelley
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Reformer who worked to limit child labor and improve conditions for female workers
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Frances Willard
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head of the WCTU for temperence and women's rights
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Herbert Croly
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Political theorist, wrote "The Promise of American Life", believed that the gov should use their powers to promote the welfare of all its citizens
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Theadore Dreiser
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depicted workers brutalized by greedy business owners

wrote Sister Carrie and The Financier
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