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Agatha Magoola US History 8th grade English 20 cards

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1Ida B. Wells~ A leading muckraker that wrote articles about unequal education for AA children
~ founder of the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People )
~ fought against lynchings in the South
2Upton Sinclair~ a muckraker that wrote 'The Jungle', a book about the problems in the meatpacking industry
3Lincoln Steffens~ a muckraker that wrote about the corrupt political machines
4Big Bill Haywood~ a radical that led the IWW (the Industrial Workers of the World)
5John Dewey~ a scholar that pushed for problem-solving skills in school over mere memorization of facts
~ “Too much drill oriented teaching.”
~ “Repetition can’t be the only way of teaching and learning.”
6Susan Blow~ opened the first American public kindergarten in St. Louis, 1873
7Elizabeth Cady Stanton~ co-founded National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
~ with Susan B. Anthony
8Susan B. Anthony~ co-founded National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
~ with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
9Carrie Chapman Catt~ became president of NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association)
~ organized more than 1M volunteers for the women's suffrage movement, demanding for the women to get an equal voice
10Alice Paul~ founded the National Women's Party (NWP)
~ they went farther than NAWSA, w/ parades, picketing, public demonstrations, hunger strikes, and any other way to draw attention towards to women's suffrage
~ due to extremities, like picketing in front of the White House, Paul and other NWP leaders/ followers were jailed
11Eugene Debs~ founded the American Railway Union (ARU)
12Samuel Gompers~ Led the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
13Robert LaFollette~ created the Wisconsin Idea
~ a record book of what office holders did
14Marie Van Vorst~ a muckraker who went undercover in factories, mills, etc to learn about what the workers go through and write about it
15Florence Kelley~ Pushed for reforms in sweatshops
~ Later became Illinois inspector for factories, enforcing laws
~ In 1893, she got Illinois to pass the law to limit women’s working hours and preventing child labor
16Booker T. Washington~ Born into slavery, was a well-respected educator in his twenties
~ didn't fight discrimination directly, encouraged AAs to improve their educational and economic well-being
~ He believed that would eventually lead to the end of discrimination
17W.E.B. DuBois~ first African-American to get a Ph.D. (from Harvard University)
~ Co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
18Francis Willard~ played an important part in the passage of the 18th Amendment
~ followed the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) and women's suffrage
19Cary Nation~ A radical, aggressive temperance fighter
~ would storm into saloons and smash alcohol with a hatchet
20Ida Tarbell~ exposed the unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company, which led the U.S Supreme Court to stop it's monopoly