Gifford Pinchot

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Gifford Pinchot
August 11, 1865 October 4, 1946.
Gifford Pinchot was the chief of the forest
service 1898 1910.
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Governor of Pennsylvania from 1923 1927 and
1931- 1935.
President of the National Conservation
association from 1910 - 1925
Wrote Breaking Ground (1946) and Fishing Talk
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William Boss Tweed
William Tweed was a corrupt senator in NYC. From
1860 to 1870 he cheated the city out of over
100milllion dollars! He was caught by a
muckraker, Thomas Nast, and put in jail for an
8000000 bail! He escaped and fled to Cuba the
authorities found him there but he bribed his way
out and went to Spain there the government found
and brought back to New York where he died 2
years later.

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Susan B. Anthony
"I know nothing but woman and her disfranchised."
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14 years after she died The 20th amendment was
Passed and women Were aloud to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was a leader in temperance. She
was anti-slavery. She toured the nation in
support of various social causes. She was
involved with the women's suffrage movement, and
she was the president of the daughters temperance.

Susan refused to give up and she Won what she
was looking to do !
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Frances Willard
Was the President and Founder of National
Womans Christian Temperance Union
She tried to stop the use of alcohol
She argued over Alcoholism symptom Was a deeper
Social cause and Could only be Defeated through
a Number of changes
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Seneca Falls Convention

• It was an assembly held on July 19-20, 1848 in
  Seneca Falls New York.
• This assembly launched the Women's Suffrage
  Movement in the United States
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who, along with Lucretia
  Mott, conceived and directed the convention.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
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Carry Nation
Carry Nation was one of the many people against
alcohol. She would march into illegal saloons
with a hatchet, and smash bottles and bar. After
the death of her alcoholic first husband, she
became the country's most outspoken
prohibitionist.
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Elizabeth cady stanton
 
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She opposed giving added legal protection and
voting rights to African American men while
continuing to deny women, black and white, the
same rights. Her position on this issue, together
with her thoughts on organized christiananity and
women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the
later formation of two separate women's rights
organizations that were finally rejoined, with
Stanton as president of the joint organization,
approximately twenty years
After the American Civil War, Stanton's
commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in
the women's rights movement when she, along with
Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution Fifteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution. She
opposed giving added legal protection and voting
rights to African American men while continuing
to deny women, black and white, the same rights.
Her position on this issue, together with her
thoughts on organized Christianity and women's
issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation
of two separate women's rights organizations that
were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president
of the joint organization, approximately twenty
years later.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People strove for equal rights of
African-Americans

• The NAACP was founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois,
  Jane Addams, and Lincoln

NAACP National Associantion for the Advancement
of Colored People
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Work Cited

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Booker T. Washington
Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller Helped Washington B
uild Trade Schools
Helped found Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to
offer Higher education To blacks
Urged AfricanAmericans tolearn tradesand earn
(demand equality)
Presidents sought His advice On racial issues
Wrote Up From Slavery
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John Muir

• John Muir was a conservationist. He went to the
  University of Wisconsin in 1861, but two years
  later he left without a degree because he studied
  only the subjects that interested him, chemistry,
  geology, and botany. Because of naturalist,
  explorer, and writer John Muir, the United States
  national park system was greatly expanded. In
  1903 he made a camping trip in the Yosemite with
  president Theodore Roosevelt. For six years Muir
  lived alone in the Yosemite valley exploring the
  glaciers and forests of the Sierra Nevada.

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Womans Christian Temperance Union
Founded in 1874.
They also wanted to ban use of tobacco, alcohol,
and illegal drugs, it ran a publishing house and
was active in schools.

• They tried to stop
• the selling of alcohol.

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W.E.B DuBois
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• William Edward Burghardt DuBois was a noted
  scholar, editor, and African American activist.
  He was a member of the Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) which was
  the largest and oldest civil rights organization
  in America.

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Jacob Riis was a well known reformer during the
early 1900s. He took pictures of tenements,
streets, and everything in the life of an
immigrant.
Because he published his books with pictures of
immigrants, it made the government pass laws such
as zoning laws and building codes. Also they
hired garbage cleaners and they put street lights
to make the life of the immigrant better.
Jacob Riis
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Author of "How the Other Half Lives"
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Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation Saving the Environment
Conservation Saving the Environment
Roosevelt wanted some forests to be left alone.
He wanted lumber companies to plant new trees
once they cut them down, and mining to be further
controlled. While Roosevelt was in office as
President, the government created national parks,
setting aside 194,000 acres of land. Roosevelt
was so concerned with the environment because
industrial growth was fueled by trees, coal, and
iron. He loved the wilderness and was worried
about the forests being destroyed.
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George Washington Carver

• George Washington Carver was born in the year
  1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He was born a
  slave and work all day with his family. At the
  age 14 he moved away to start his education in
  Kansas. He graduated from high school and then
  went to collage in Iowa. George graduated collage
  with a Maters degree in science and a Bachelors
  degree.
• George Washington Carver helped to modernize
  the agricultural economy, he was an experimenter
  and a chemist. George developed products from
  ground peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.
• George Carver had the passion for drawing,
  plants, and animals and it helped him, pursue his
  dreams and the lives of thoughs who had to suffer.

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Teddy Roosevelt
Industrial monopolies, popularly known as
trusts, were among the targets of the
muckrakers and the cause of popular alarm.
Roosevelt was not concerned with breaking up the
monopolies so much as with correcting their
evils.
Trust buster Roosevelt wanted to test the power
of the government to break up trusts.
In 1902 he brought lawsuit against the northern
security company.
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Theodore Roosevelt

• 1.)He became president in 1901.
• 2.)He tried to file suit against Standard oil,
  and American tobacco company.
• 3.)In time the courts ordered the breakup of both
  trusts because they blocked free trade.

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Thomas Nast

• He was the most influential cartoonist of the
  nineteenth century. In the 1860s his drawings
  eventually led to the arrest of the corrupt
  William Tweed. He also did many other drawings of
  things to cause awareness.

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Thomas Nast

• Tomas Nast was born on September 27, 1840 and
  died on December 7, 1902.
• He is famous for his cartoons illustrations
  showing all the corruption in cities.
• He is most famous for his illustrations about
  William boss Tweed
• Boss Tweed was popular among the poor and
  immigrants for giving out jobs. But he was not
  being fair to people so Thomas Nast showed people
  what was going on.

• Not everyone could read so he used cartoons to
  show what was happening in cities so that
  everyone could understand.

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Lewis Hine
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• Hine was a photographer in the 1900s. He was very
  disgusted the conditions of factories and child
  labor. He decided to do something about it. He
  snuck into factories and took pictures of the
  poor working conditions. Then he published them
  in a book called Kids at Work it caused many
  people to protest child labor and eventually
  caused the Child Labor Act.

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Upton Sinclair
Upton was born sep 20, 1878. He died nov 25,
1968. Upton did investigations on meat factories.
He wrote a book called The Jungle describing
the conditions. He explained how meat packing
factories used meat from sick animals and threw
in dead mice.
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