progressives

Question 1

ida tarbell

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leading muckraking journalist whose articles documented the Standard Oil Company’s abuse of power

Question 2

lincoln steffens

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early muckraker who exposed the political corruption of many American cities in his work “The Shame of the Cities”

Question 3

edward bellamy

Answer 3

writer Looking Backward; said that captialism supported the few and exploited the many (character wakes up in 2000 after napping; says socialism will be on top in the end) utopian journalist reformer

Question 4

upton sinclair

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muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago

Question 5

henry george

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controversial idealist and author reformer whose book Progress and Poverty advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land

Question 6

emma goldman

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United States anarchist/activist/writer (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; developed the anarchist ideology and was a birth control advicate

Question 7

eugene v debs

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head of the American Railway Union and director of the Pullman strike; he was imprisoned along with his associates for ignoring a federal court injunction to stop striking; emerged as a Socialist leader in America; convicted under the Espionage Act

Question 8

william haywood

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leader of the IWW ( Industrial Workers of the World ) whose goal was to organize all workers into one union to overthrow Capitalism; convicted under Espionage Act

Question 9

mary harris “mother” jokes

Answer 9

one of the most prominent organizers of the child labor laws; organized the Great RR Strike, the Haymarket Riot; agitated strikes for the Knights of Labor

Question 10

jacob riis

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early 1900’s muckraker/Danish immigrant who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel “How The Other Half Lives”; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC and Hell’s Kitchen

Question 11

walter rauschenbusch

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leading Protestant advocate and pastor of the “social gospel” who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems

Question 12

margret sanger

Answer 12

American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900’s; founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood