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John Hays
- -a lieutenant in the American Revolution
- -one of the oldast American Jewish families
- -Live in Illinois 1793
- -served for 20yrs as sheriff of St. Clair County
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Jane Addams
- Leader in woman suffrage and world peace
- Help nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as children, publick health, and world peace
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Andrew Carnegie
- Steel indrustrial leader
- Believe in education or reading
- Give money to establish liberia
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John Dewey
- Educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reformThe founders of funtional psychology A major representative of progressive education and liberalism
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John D. Rockefeller
- The founder of the Standard Oil Company
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Upton Sinclair
- An American author It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
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W.E.B DuBois
- An American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editorOne of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909
- Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics
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Ida B. Wells
- An African American journalist, newspaper editor
- An early leader in the
civil rights movement - She was active in the women's rights and the women's suffrage movement
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Booker T. Washington
- American educator, author, orator, and political leader Washington was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved woman, and a white father
- Work greatly helped blacks to achieve higher education
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William Sumner
He was also the first to teach a course entitled "Sociology American academic and "held the first professorship in sociology" at Yale College
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Robert LaFollette
best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations.
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Charles Beard
- Beard was famous as a political liberal, but he strenuously opposed American entry into World War II, for which he blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt more than Japan or Germany
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Mary Harris
A prominent American labor and community organizer, who helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Jack London
- An American author, journalist, and social activist
- One of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone
- Best remembered as the author of
Call of the Wild and White Fang,
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John Muir
- American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States
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elped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas
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Alice Paul
- American suffragist and activistLed a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920
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Henry Ford
- American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company
- Sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production
- As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
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Frederick Turner
- He traveled over 60,000 miles throughout Australia botanizing
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He is the holder of many medals and diplomas for economic botany
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Margaret Sanger
American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist
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Jacob Riis
- He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City
- He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their traditionalism to middle class ridicule
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