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Jane Addams

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Prominent social reformer who was responsible for creating the Hull House. She helped other women join the fight for reform, as well as influencing the creation of other settlement houses.

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Frances Willard

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Leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement who believed women should 'Do Everything' to achieve social and moral reform

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W.E.B DuBois

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black intellectual who challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow; he called for the black community to demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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Fredrick Turner

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Historian during the 1890s who wrote the frontier thesis, which argued that the continuous existence of the American frontier had shaped the character of the nation, and the end of this frontier marked the end the first chapter in American history.

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James Bogardus

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an inventing genius that Stewart chose to help build his department store, he was one of the first to build buildings out of cast iron buildings

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Ida B. Wells Barnett

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an African American journalist and newspaper editor. An early leader in the civil rights movement, she documented the extent of lynching in the United States. She was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement. helped found the NAACP

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Justin Morrill

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Created plan for each state to set apart land for public state universities.

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th President of the United States, 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

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Booker T. Washington

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Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book \"Up from Slavery.\"

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Matthew Vassar

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He was born in Norfolk, England in 1792. He was the founder of Vassar College and he was a business interpreter. Many women's colleges were founded starting with Vassar's in 1865 and that set the academic standard for the rest of the century. He and his family abandoned their farmhouse in England and set sail on the ship Criterion in 1796 to come to America. He was also a brewer and he took over his family's small brewery at the age of 18.

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Leland Stanford

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Multimillionaire railroad builder, he founded Stanford University in memory of his only son, who died young. He founded the Central Pacific Railroad.

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John Hopkins

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This college, founded only four years after Harvard awarded its first doctorate degree in 1876, was the first college to make the graduate school to be tis focus

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James Buchanan Eads

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He built the bridge for St. Louis, was an adviser to the union navy. He figured out how to built water tight structures using chrome steel.

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John Roebling

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was one of the creators of the suspension bridges. He also created and manufactured steel-wire ropes which he used, along with steel cables, in his construction. One of his most famous works was the Brooklyn Bridge which he completed shortly before his death.

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Washington Roebling

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Took over the building of the Brooklyn Bridge after the death of his father, but became too weak to supervise the bridge on spot.

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Elisha Graves Otis

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Invented a brake that would automatically clamp the elevator cage to the slides if the rope broke. Elevators were important because it saved space, and was hard to walk more than a couple flights.

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Niagra Movement

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Led by W.E.B. Du Bois, that focused on equal rights and education of African American youth. Rejecting the gradualist approach of Booker T. Washington, members kept alive a program of militant action and claimed for African Americans all the rights afforded to other Americans. It spawned later civil rights movements.

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Hull House

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Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty.

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Frontier Thesis

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The argument by Frederick Jackson Turner that the frontier experience helped make American socity more democratic; emphasized cheap, unsettled land and the absence of a landed aristocracy.

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional

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Literacy Test

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A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote

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Immigration Restriction League

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demanded that all immigrants prove that they could read and write before being allowed into the country

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Temperance

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self control

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Gentleman's Agreement

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(1907) agreement in which the Japanese promised not to issue passports to laborers seeking to come to the US, in return for no Japanese segregation in the US.

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Anglo-Saxon

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The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.

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Vassar

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Site of the first women's college in America.

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Mixing bowls

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Cities with large immigrant populations have been called this.

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Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington built this school to educate black students on learning how to support themselves and prosper

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Bryn Mawr

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Trained women to take on careers, required that everyone lived on campus so they wouldnt get side-tracked

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Melting Pots

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Many different cultures in one area, Lots of different pieces,When people get here people assimilate into American culture. Them and us. We are all mixed together. Green and red paint. Stir together and it becomes something new.

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Morrill Act

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Allows for creation of land-grant colleges, colleges built on federally granted land specially appropriated for this purpose. It was signed into law by Lincoln

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Caissons Disease

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Person comes out too quickly the air pressure changes forcing too much air out of lungs

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

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Company Towns

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areas including houses, stores and servies built and controlled by a company

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th President of the United States, 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, \"Square Deal,\" Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War

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Fredrick Law Olmstead

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Father of American Landscape architecture. Designed Central Park and Washington D.C. model was the romantic gardens.

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Henry Bessemer

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This man revolutionized the way to manufacture steel by making the process quicker and more efficient

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William Le Baron Jenny

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United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)

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Jacob Riis

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A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.

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Frances Benjamin Johnson

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a talented artist and self organizer who paved the way for women photojournalists, her most appealing photographs were of Roosevelts children Archie and Quentin

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