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west/gilded age
spring 2010
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History
11th Grade
03/22/2010

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jane addams
Definition
US Settlement House Movement-- rich an poor living together in closer harmony
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susan b. anthony
Definition

american civil rights movement leader

worked for women's rights

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edward bellamy
Definition

american author/socialist

wrote about how quickly America has changed, grown, and prospered

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andrew carnegie
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billionaire stel manufacturer

supported higher tariffs/any law that benefits big business

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william jennings bryan
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ran for prez

had faith in common people

pro silver rather than gold

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george washington carver
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scientist/botanist

invented/promoted alernate crops

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grover cleveland
Definition

president

low taxes

against imperialism

took big business' side

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eugene debs
Definition

socialist

organizers of the pullman strike against big businesses

arrested and imprisoned

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W.E.B. DuBois
Definition

sociologist

important black leader

started National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

civil rights activist

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james garfield
Definition

attacked political corruption

advocated seceded states back into the union

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henry george
Definition

political economist

journalist

"progressive poverty"-- questions causes of industrial depressions and increase of want with increase of wealth and tendency of wages to a minimum are examined and reconstructed

land value tax/single tax on land

argued the gap between rich and poor

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geronimo
Definition

native american leader/medicine man

fought against expansion

numerous escapes from capture and daring exploits

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WASHINGton gladden
Definition

social gospel movement

support of unionization in the workplace

opposed to segregation

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samuel gompers
Definition

american labor uion leader

key figure in american labor hisotry

founded american federation of labor AFL
fought for higher wages and shorter hours

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charles guiteau
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lawyer who assassinated prez garfield
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mother jones
Definition

american labor and community organizer

industrial workers of the world

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chief joseph
Definition

tried to lead tribe to safety in canada

blocked and moved to oklahoma on a reservation

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henry demarest lloyed
Definition

progressive political activist

muckracker

exposed corruption of business/government

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belva lockwood
Definition

attorney, politician, educator, author

worked for women's rights

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william mckinley
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civil war veteran

republican

believed in high tarriffs

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alfred mahan
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helped prompt naval buildups before WWI
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terence V powderly
Definition

nationalist

master workman

led kights of labor-- largest labor organization

brought together wage earners to achieve emancipation from wage salary

support cooperatives (factories where workers collectively made decisions on prices and profits equally shared)

 

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jacob riis
Definition

journalist

draw attention of millions to urban poverty

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john d rockefeller
Definition

powerful and walthy man

started standard oil trust

owned 90% of nations oil industry with unfair business tactics

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lincoln steffens
Definition

journalist, lecturer, political philosopher

muckracker

exposed corruption of business and government

reported political corruption

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theodore roosevelt
Definition

broke up monopolies and large trusts

increased regulation of business

average citizen would get fiar shake under his policies

conservatoin movement

completion of panema canal

rough riders

american power

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sitting bull
Definition

holy native american leader

chief of war

premonition of defeating us seventh cavalry and general custer became true

killed in crossfire after arrest on his reservation with suspected ghost dance movement involvement

 

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josiah strong
Definition

indian reservations

protestant missionary

carry out God's command by spreading the message of God to all people and win converts

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william graham sumner
Definition

yale professor

few people able to produce capital to drive out other businesses

social darwinism-- survival of the fittest

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ida tarbell
Definition

journalist

greatly criticized techniques of rockefeller with standard oil

created posters to promote WWI

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booker t washington
Definition

political leader, educator, orator, and author

dominant figure in afircan american community

last generation of black leaders born in slavery

speaking for those blacks who had remained in new south

 

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tom watson
Definition

politician

championed poor farmers and working class

controversial publisher and populist politician

supported the Ku Klux Klan

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james b weaver
Definition

politician

greenback party

opponent of the gold standard and natoinal banks

populist party

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ida wells
Definition

journalist

civil rights

exposed the extent of lynching

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frances willard
Definition
suffragist and socialist
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victoria woodhull
Definition

first woman to run for president

free love movement

first woman to operate a brokerage firm in wall street

opened a weekly newspaper

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