-In 1888 Booker T. Washington was appointed the first president of Tuskegee Institute, an Alabama trade school for blacks.

-known throughout the United States as a spokesman for African Americans

-As African Americans struggled with Caucasian in the united states he taught African Americans to be strong.

-His speeches earned him the respect of many Americans, both black and white. But other blacks criticized him for failing to take a stand against racial inequality

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Theodore Roosevelt, Trusts/ Theodore Roosevelt, Trusts/ monopolies monopolies

The latter included a plan The latter included a plan for federal supervision of for federal supervision of all interstate business all interstate business

when Americans were when Americans were disturbed by the abuses disturbed by the abuses of big business of big business

The waste of the nation's The waste of the nation's natural resources, and natural resources, and the threatened loss of the threatened loss of traditional valuestraditional values

Sherman antirust act Trusts/monopolies

Sherman antirust act passed by congress in 1840

The Sherman antirust of 1840 was designed to prohibit trust and restricting trade between states and foreign countries

It was the first legislative enacted by the united states congress in 1980 reducing economic competition

John Muir

CONSERVATION

•After a while as a California fruit grower Muir earned enough money to commit himself entirely

to the cause of conservation.•Muir and Robert U. Johnson’s effort made the

Yosemite National park bill pass in 1890.•He worked toward gaining popular and federal

support for forest conservation and the establishment of national parks.

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Lewis Hine

In 1911 he was hired by the national child labor committee Hine used his camera in the

cause of social reform Boy employed by the Turky Kob mine Lewis took a picture of him

Thomas NastBetween 1869 and 1871 he produced a series of cartoons attacking New York's Tammany Hall and William M. Tweed.

Tweed had to go to jail because of corrupt conduct of public business.

He popularized the tiger as a symbol of Tammany hall, contributed to the

American concept of the appearance of Santa Claus, and invented the donkey and elephant emblems of the Democratic and

Republican parties. His cartoons were probably one of the chief factors in the in the

machine downfall.machine downfall.

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William “Boss” Tweed

1.From 1851-1871 Tweed and his helpers looted New York of 30-200 million dollars

2. After showing in the press Tweed was arrested for larceny and forgery this was exposed by Thomas Nast

3. Tweed would give money to the poor so that they would vote for him.

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•Frances Willard wrote frequently and for WCTU publication.

•Frances Willard helped banned alcohol.

•WCTU stands for Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

•She was president of the WCTU .

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

–Planned first organized demand for women’s suffrage in U.S.–Her father told her “Oh, my

daughter, I wish you were a boy! She never forgot what he said.

–She was the leader in women’s right's movement.

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Gifford Pinchot

He served as a member of the public lands commission

In 1904 he became chairman of the National Conservation CommissionIn 1920 he was a appointed state forester of pennsylvania

Famous for her part in the woman's suffrage movement Susan B. Anthony was president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association or N. A. W. S. A. and was at the Seneca falls convention of 1848. In 1872 she was arrested and fined for trying to vote. She refused to pay the fine.

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Upton Sinclar

1.The Jungle was written after Sinclair was sent to Chicago

2.Investigates conditions in the city's stockyards of Chicago

3.The meat inspection act helped stop bad food from going to the store

Meat packing factories

Conservation (Saving the Environment)

1) In 1905 Roosevelt reorganized the forest serviced and made Gifford Pinchot its chief.

2) Roosevelt doubled the number of the National parks.

3) Roosevelt pressed for Conservation the protection of natural resources.

1) The 21st president of the United States.

2) He supported and signed into law the reform Civil Service Act of 1883.3) Chester Alan Arthur was born in

North Fairfield, on October1829.

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Carrie Nation

She Destroyed stocks of liquor and Wrecked furniture

with a hatchet

The Hatchet became her symbol in 1901

She Got little support from the Temperance Movement

Jacob Riis is a journalist, photographer, and reformer, publicized the plight of

immigrants in New York City slum tenements. He drifted into newspaper

work and worked as a police reporter for the ‘New York Tribune.’

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

The NAACP ask the congress to pass the Civil Right Act at 1964 and Voting Right Act at 1965. Those act help African

American to gain equal right

NAACP parade against East St. Louis race riot   Civil Rights Movement:

Little Rock, Arkansas  

The NAACP played an important role during the civil rights movement of the 1960s

1. Helped organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (NAACP)

2. Was a leading champ of the liberation of African and people of African descent.

3. Tried to end racial discrimination.

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