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W.E.B. DU Bois
Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.when he was a kid he went to sunday school.By the 1900s He was recognized as a strong supporter of the civil rights. He was the first black to earn a doctorate from Harvard. -
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley worked hard for labor laws. She soon pushed illnois legislature in 1893 to band child labor and to limit the number of hours women could work.Soon after 1893 in 1910 they faced the worst work conditions. -
standardard oil
Tarbell got assigned to investigate the oil company. also business practices after the oil business she wrote a autobiography 5 years before she pasted away -
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
Started in New York City it sought to unionize workers mainly Jews and italian immigrant women employed in sewing shops. In 1909 workers from three different NY factories walked off their jobs. Then they went to ILGWU to call a general strike. -
Lawrence Veiller
a settlement-house worker,attacked irresponsible tenement owers who for the sake of a large profit on their investments sacrifice the helath and welfare of countless thousands. as the secretary to the New York state Tenement owers commission veiller campaigned tirelessly for improved housing. In 1900 he questioned Henry Moscowitz who in 17 years had lived in 14 different tenements on NY lower East side. Moscowitz described the stench dirt noise and the lack of lights fresh air water electricity. -
lincoln Steffens
lincoln Steffens was a journalists and claude Wetmore marked the real beginning of this style of journalism. the artical exposed the corrupt political machine in st louis comparing it to Boss Tweed's control of new york city. In novmber 1902 Mclure's ran the first installment of history of the standerd oil company. -
Billy sunday
Billy was a former baseball play turned Persbyterian evangelist preached that saloons were the parent of crimes and the mother of sins. Frances Willard headed of the WCTU from 1879 to 1898.
Willard enentually made the WCTU a powerful national force for temperancemoral purity and the rights of women. -
Ida Tarbell
In november 1902 McClure's ran the first installment of history of the standard oil company. she was born in western PA in 1857. She went to Allegheny College in 1876. -
Society of American Indians
Jim Thorpe was one of best athletes in U.S history and he was a American Indian. Indains formed this group called Society of American Indians.Dawes act led to the Society of American Indians group becace they wanted there rigths. -
Eighteenth Amendment
congress proposed this amendment which barred the making sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages. Senator William Kenyon asked "If liquor is a bad thing for the boys in the trenches but it is a ok thing for those at home?this amendment was repealed in 1933.
