People APUSH – Flashcards
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Terence v. Powderly
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Leader of the knights of labor. made it hard to control unauthorized strikes. won strikes requesting 8 hr. work day. Signified the beginning of another labor union
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Samuel Gompers
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United states labor leader who was president of the american federation of labor
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Henry Clay Frick
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Carnegies supplier. anti union, in charge of mills when homestead stike occured. stained the reputation of unions
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Eugene V. Debs
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Head of American Railway Union, director of pullman strike. imprisoned for ignoring federal court injunction to stop striking. became socialist
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Henry George
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reformer whose book Progress and Poverty advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land
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Edward Bellamy
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Wrote looking Backwards, a utopian nobel that predicted the US would become a socialist state and that the gov. would oversee a lot
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Mary E. Lease
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"Mary Yellin" "Kansas Pythoness" made speeches criticizing wall street and wealthy. kansas. "less corn more hell"
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Frank Norris
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Muckraker who wrote the octopus which said railroads strangled farmers ecause too expensivo
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Ida Tarbell
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muckraker who wrote in McClures mag. published history of standard oil. "Mother of Trusts"
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Lincoln Steffens
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muckraker, wrote shame of the cities, unmasked corrupt alliances between big buisnesses and governemnt
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Jacob Riis
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photographer of tenement lifestyle
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Jane Addams
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middle class women who uplifted urban masses, college education, hull house in chicago, condemned war and poverty Nobel Peace prize
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, school principal, head of national american womans suffrage.
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Alice Paul
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leader of national womans party. equil rights. too extreme
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Marry Jones
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Urged coal miners to join union. staged paragdes. showed importance of mothers.
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Thorstein Veblen
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economist, wrote theory of leisure class, condemned and criticized conspicuous consumerism
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Frederick Taylor
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scientific management. simplist, cheapest way of preforming jobs.
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Robert LaFollette
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Gov. of Wis. most militant. heled break power of wisconsim political machines. levy heavier taxes on rr's and public utilities.
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Leon Czolgos
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assassinated McKinley
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John Muir
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famed naturalist of sierra club against building dams in hetch hetchy valley
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Giffor Pinchot
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teddys chief forester. wilderness was waste. wanted to use resources intelligently
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William Henry Seward
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the anti-slaveryite advocate of Gods moral law in the senate.
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Josiah Strong
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wrote the people of anglo-saxon decent were fittest tos urvive. had duty to colonize the other lands
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Valeriano Weyler
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spanish governor in charge of suppressing the cuban revolution. brutal reconcentration gave him the name the Butcher
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George Dewey
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a united states naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in spanish american war
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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led american troops to capture manila, annexed hawaii. collaborated with filipino insurgents to overthrow the spanish rulers
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John Hay
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american sec. of state who tried to preserve chinese ind. and protect american support in china
