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- j.d. rockefeler
- created a monopoly of the oil industry
- william tweed
- political machines and boss; boss of tammany hall; controlled the democratic party in new york city; went to jail; nich name " Boss Tweed"
- Woodrow Wilson
- threatened to cut off ties with Germany because of the sinking of the Lusitania asked for a declatation of war and congress agreed; treaty of versailles
- Samuel Gompers
- founder of american federation of labor
- Jane Addams
- founded most famous settlement house in american history, the hull house in chicago
- cornelius vanderbilt
- united states financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shopping bisinesses
- Ferdinand De Lesseps
- french diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal
- web dubois
- 1st backto eard Ph.D fromharvard encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped to create NAACP in 1910; brake the color line...demanded equal rights
- Jacob Riis
- a journalist in the late 1800s whose book "how the other half lived" exposed the awful conditions on NYC's slums and poor people
- George Dewey
- U.S. naval commander wholed the american attackon the Philippines
- William Gorgas
- Army physician who helped eradicate Yellow Fever and malaria from Panama to work on Panama canal could proceed
- John J. Pershing
- Lt. of the buffalo Soldiers; nick-name "Black John Pershing"
- andrew carnegie
- contolled all phases of the steel industry; believed in the "gospel of wealth"
- Teddy Roosevelt
- president; progressive politic; big areas of involvement are conservation, Sherman Anti Trust Act, and Pure food drug act
- Upton Sinclair
- authos of "The Jungle"- a book describing the unhealthy conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago
- article 10
- if territory of a member was threatened, US might have to go towar"- is war necessary
- George Goethals
- supervised the Panama canalwhen things got bad
- Ida B. Wells
- against lunchings; wrote the book" Red Record" which was about the illegal hangings
- thomas edison
- man whose inventions changed the way americans lived and also created whole new industries
- Franz Ferdinand
- archduke of Austra, assassinated/ his deah was one of the main causes for WWI
- Ida Tarbell
- muchraker whotargeted the unfair practices of big business. her articles about the standard oil company led todemands for tighter controls on trust
- w. Jennings Bryan
- wrote the "cross of gold" speech
- ellis island
- an island in new york bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the united states