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Final Exam People
Ch. 12- 18 People
37
History
11th Grade
12/13/2013

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Rutherford B. Hayes
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won presidential election of 1876 even though he did not win the popular vote
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Ulysses S. Grant
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as president, he gave high-level advisory posts to untrustworthy freinds and acquaintances
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Horace Greeley
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ran against Grant in 1872
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Andrew Johnson
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became the president after Lincoln's death
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Thomas Edison
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inventor of the light bulb
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John D. Rockefeller
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an oil tycoon who used horizontal integration to increase profits
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Andrew Carnegie
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steel tycoon who established libraries in disadvantaged areas; controlled the production of steel
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Terence V. Powderly
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leader of Knights of Labor in 1881
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Eugene V. Debs
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leader of the American Railway Union and co-founder of the IWW
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Samuel Gompers
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leader of the American Federation of Labor
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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a famous designer of parks
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Mark Twain
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a novelist who mocked society
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Joseph Pulitzer
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a sensationalist publisher of the "World"
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Horatio Alger
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a novelist whose characters worked hard and were successful
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William Randolph Hearst
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owner of the New York Journal who supported the Spanish-American War
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Elisha Otis
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inventor of the elevator
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John Wanamaker
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used newspaper advertisements to attract customers to his department store
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Sitting Bull
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escaped to Canada after the Battle of Little Big Horn
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Chief Joseph
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led a group of Indians on a 1300-mile journey to Canada
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Ida B. Wells
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a journalist who spoke out against lynching
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Booker T. Washington
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encouraged blacks to become educated
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Thomas Nast
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political cartoonist
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Oliver H. Kelley
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founder of the Grange movement
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William Jennings Bryan
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Democratic candidate who advocated "free silver" in the 1896 presidential election
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William McKinley
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won the 1896 presidential election
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WEB DuBois
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black leader who demanded full and immediate equality for blacks; founded the Niagara Movement and the NAACP
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Jane Addams
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leading figure in the settlement house movement
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Jacob Riis
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photographed tenement buildings in which the poor lived in
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Florence Kelley
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formed the Women's Trade Union League to push for laws that would benefit women working in factories
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Ida B. Wells
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founded the National Association of Colored Women
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Octaviano Larrazolo
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a Progressive Republican governor of New Mexico
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Gifford Pinchot
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wanted to preserve the nation's forests so the trees had time to mature
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John Muir
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fought for the creation of Yosemite National Park
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Woodrow Wilson
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won the presidential election of 1912
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Teddy Roosevelt
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war hero, former NY governor and dedicated reformer when he became president
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William Howard Taft
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Governor of the Philippines in 1901
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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Filipino nationalist who fought Spain and the US
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