Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington

• Born during the slavery period
• As a kid he worked in coal mines
• Attended school whenever he could
• Graduated in 1872 from the newly founded Hampton
  Institute
• Found the Tuskegee institute in Alabama
• offered high education to blacks
• Businesses like Andrew Carnegie and John D.
  Rockefeller help to back him up

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Teddy Roosevelt
"Trustbuster"
-He was against trusts and would break them
up. -He started making railroad prices more
fair. -He made a lot of these go to the supreme
court -He in forced the Sherman act
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Carry Nation
-Associated with Temperance Movement Temperance
Movement- Campaign against alcohol consumption.
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• Wanted a constitutional amendment banning the
  sale of liquor.
• More radical temperance crusader.
• Dedicated her life to fighting Demon Run

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By Emily Przysinda
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's Rights
-She opposed African American rights because she
wanted women to have the rights first

• -She opposed the 15th Amendment because it didnt
  give African American women the right to vote,
  just men

-She set up the National Woman Suffrage
Association that wanted women to have the right
to vote
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Frances Willard
Temperance
Movement
founder of the World Woman's Christian Temperance
Union (1883). In 1876 she also became head of
the national WCTU's publications committee. In
October 1874 she was elected secretary of the
newly organized state
DEFINITION OF MY TOPICS MOVEMENT
Temperance movement. Was women who came together
to ban alcohol use.
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver discovered over 300 uses
for peanuts and made a salary of 100000 a year.
He had recipes for tons of foods like meat and
mayonnaises and milk. George Washington Carver
was a food guy. He want to the Tuskegee
institution were he meet the educator, Booker T.
Washington who was trying to improve black
education. Carver tried to follow his footsteps
and improve education to. Carver decided to stay
at the Tuskegee Institution for the rest of his
life
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JACOB RIIS!!!!!!
City living conditions!
Jacob Riis was a photographer for the news
paper. Jacob Riis used his photography to
capture some picture of the poor conditions. He
also wrote a book of what the Ghetto looked and
how the people lived. Emancipator of the Slums
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John Muir

• Conservation movement
• successfully crusaded for the establishment of
  national parks and the preservation of forests.
• He had earned enough money to devote himself to
  the cause of conservation, the main reason being
  the preservation of Western forests. Through his
  work and help of Robert U. Johnson, the Yosemite
  National park bill was passed in 1890,
  establishing Yosemite and Sequoia national parks.
• Muir rallied public support for national
  conservation laws at a time when few people saw
  the importance of protecting wilderness areas.
• CONSERVATION protection of natural environment.
  

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Gifford Pinchot
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• What did he do?
• he began the first systematic forestry work
• worked out the plan of U.S. forest reserves
• Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft
• enthusiasm and promotional work did much for the
  conservation movement in general

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NAACP
African American Reform Movement

• The NAACP was the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People.
  
• It was founded in 1909 to work toward equal
  rights for African Americans.
  
• Many of their actions have focused on national
  issues.
• The group persuaded President Woodrow Wilson to
  denounce lynching in 1918.
• Fought discrimination in schools and workplaces.

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Seneca Falls Convention
By Erika Kalgren
The Seneca Falls Convention was an assembly that
launched the Womens Suffrage Movement in the
United States
Who Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
directed the convention When It was held on July
19-20, 1848 Where The convention was held in
Elizabeth Cadys hometown, Seneca Falls, New York
The Seneca Falls Convention improved womens
rights, organized and petitioned. It also raised
the awareness of womens rights.
Suffrage- right to vote
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Sherman anti-trust act

• By Savannah Sherman

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What was it?

• Sherman anti-trust act, in 1890, which banned the
  formation of trusts and monopolies. However, it
  was too weak to be effective. Some state
  governments passed laws to regulate businesses,
  but the corporations usually sidestepped them.

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Important facts!

• Tried to destroyed monopolies
• It sounded strong but was really difficult.
• Sherman anti-trust act was often used against
  labor unions.

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Why it was important!

• It stopped competition monopolies

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Susan B. Anthony
Associated With Womens Rights
Movement
Set up the National Womens Suffrage
Association in 1869 Renewed calls for suffrage
after the Civil War Supported women getting the
right to vote after the war
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Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation

• Protect nations wilderness areas
• The rights of the public to natural resources
  outweigh private rights from Theodore Roosevelt.
• He wanted some of the forest to be left and said
  that lumber companies needed to plant new trees
• Also The mining companies needed to be controlled
  
• The government set aside 194,000 acres for
  national parks
• Then the Theodore Roosevelt national park in
  North Dakota was open.

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Upton Sinclair
And the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair wrote the novel The Jungle which
was a fictional book but had great facts on the
disgusting business of the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
The meat packing industry often grinded up the
rats in healthy. the sausages and dyed the meat
to make it look healthy.
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William Boss Tweed.

• Corruption in Cities.
• American politician
• Also was a political boss (power politicians that
  gained power in many cities, had work done
  locally and demanded payoffs from businesses)
• Head of Tammany Hall (the democratic party
  political machine, that played a major role in
  controlling NYC politics)
• During the 1860s and 1870s he cheated the city
  more then 100 million