USII- Unit 1 Test Study Guide Terms

Andrew Carnegie

steel

J.P. Morgan

banking

John D. Rockefeller

oil

Cornelius Vanderbilt

railroad

Tom Watson

Georgia's leading populist

Wanted to form a black and white Alliance

Eugene V. Debs

jailed for violating judicial order

still had support

famous labor leader who became the leading voice of socialism

supported economic equality, workers rights, and Democratic control

Samuel Gompers

AFL founder

unions should not be independent but negotiate

William Jennings Bryan

supported by democrats and populists

voiced Farmers Grievances and Prides

helped with currency

Ida Tarbell

exposed Rockefeller and standard oil

unethical monopolies

Lincoln Steffens

exposed political corruption / machines in cities

Upton Sinclair

exposed the meat packing industry

wrote “the Jungle”

Jacob Riis

immigrant that took pictures to show the bitter side of tenement life

Theodore Roosevelt

progressive president from 1901-1909

William H Taft

progressive president from 1909-1913

Woodrow Wilson

progressive president from 1913-1921

Mary “ Mother” Jones

famous labor organizer who supported striking workers

fought for workers rights and Free Speech

went on strike to end child labor

Margaret Sanger

major leader of the birth control movement

opened a birth control clinic but got arrested

Robert LaFollette

Progressive governor of Wisconsin

supported railroad regulation, direct primaries, worker protections and Wisconsin idea

Ida B. Wells

Journalist

reports on racial injustices in South

Lynching

Booker T. Washington

advocates for learning vocational skills ( job skills)

slower approach

W.E.B. Du Bois

wants immediate change

get an education and become a leader in society

NAACP  leader

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

organized Seneca Falls Convention

helped write declaration of sentiments

wanted immediate National Action for women's suffrage

co-founded nwsa

Lucretia Mott

co-organized Seneca Falls Convention

early leader of women's rights movement

Sojourner Truth

formerly enslaved woman

Gave “ ain't I a woman”  speech

challenged beliefs about women being weak / incapable

highlighted the double burden of racism and sexism

Susan B. Anthony

major suffrage leader

tried to vote in 1872

Wanted a national Constitutional Amendment

use the 14th Amendment to challenge

Victoria Woodhull

presidential candidate endorsed by nwsa

“ free love candidate”

had fake ballots to prove women can vote

Lucy Stone

believed suffrage should be won state by state

co-founded awsa

used lobbying instead of more confrontational tactics

Alice Stone Blackwell

Helped to reunite The Divided suffrage movement

created nawsa

Carrie Chapman Catt

led the final push for women's suffrage

led the later suffrage campaign

gained support state by state while pursuing National suffrage

worked to gain support and resistant Northeast and South

Lucy Burns

helped form a more radical National Women's party

pressured federal government for Constitutional Amendment

Alice Paul

leader of national women's party

organized White House pickets

her protesters were arrested and jailed

Amelia Bloomer

early suffragist, editor and social activist

attended Seneca Falls Convention

Created “ the lily”  newspaper 

Promoted dress reform-  pants represented the freedom of women breaking from social norms

“ bloomers” became associated with women's rights activists

Jeanette Rankin

first woman elected to US Congress

supported women's voting rights

worked for better labor conditions and women / infant Healthcare

Leon Cozolgzs

assassinated president McKinley