Carry Nation

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Carry Nation
The Temperance Movement

• Opposed liquor immediately after finding her 1st
  husband was an alcoholic.
• In 1892 she helped found a local Womens
  Christian Temperance Movement.
• She believed in stopping alcohol abuse
  spiritually, using prayer and faith.
• After she was refused help in stopping illegal
  saloons in 1900, she destroyed 3 saloons herself
  using physical force.

www.wikipedia.com
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George Washington Carver
Agriculturalist

• He was an agricultural chemist who helped
  modernize agricultural economy for the South.
• He created peanut butter and promoted this to
  liberate the South from relying on cotton.
• Inventions include Paper, plastic, buttermilk,
  adhesives, shaving cream, and many more that
  improved the South. We still use these today.

• http//school.eb.com/comptons/art-67027/George-Was
  hington-Carver?articleTypeId31

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Child labor
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Lewis Hine went in the building as a fire safety
inspector
The u.s. government made standards act in 1938
that child that is 14 years or older that they
can work
The companies can heir child for less pay and
they can fix Minchin
http//www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabo
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• By Mike Holbrook

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Womens Rights
In 1854 Elizabeth made another huge
accomplishment for women She was the first women
to speak in front of the New York Legislature.
In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony helped proposed the Married Womans
Property Act Of New York and was passed. It
allowed women to have custody of their children,
hold property, make contracts, keep their own
earrings and inheritance, and sue in court.
Because man and woman are the complement of one
another, we need woman's thought in national
affairs to make a safe and stable government.
http//school.eb.com/comptons/art-119378/Elizabeth
-Cady-Stanton?articleTypeId1
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• An educated man from Yale, becoming a forest
  conservative. He served as chief of the
  Department of Agricultures

• Was in influenced by the European forest
  management movement. Believed in the concept of
  conservation for use- not preservation.

Pinchot with Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot

• Disliked waste and went against many lumber
  companies, though opposed preservation of the
  forest for wildlife or scenery.

Conservationist

• Founder of the National Conservation Association,
  President Roosevelt was president at the time,
  who was also a conservationist.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot
http//www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/peo
ple/Pinchot/Pinchot.html
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Lewis Hine was hired by the National Child Labor
Committee to photograph child labor abuses.
Lewis Hine was a U.S. photographer who
photographed and exposed the terrible conditions
of child labor.
Lewis Hine
His hard work resulted in building codes and
child labor laws protecting the children.
http//www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabo
r/
http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRhine.htm
Child Labor
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NAACP symbol.
W.E.B. Dubois
All pictures from Wikipedia.
W.E.B. Dubois was a very big inspiration for
African Americans. Dubois taught language courses
at Wilberforce University to mainly black
students. Dubois was considered the leading
African American in the first half of the 20th
century. He led a group called the Negro
Exhibition the Negro Exhibition concentrated
on how African Americans Contributed to the
U.S.A. Dubois lastly helped found the Niagara
Movement It championed freedom of speech and
criticism. He was considered the vice president
of this movement because he organized all of the
marches and protests they had. Dubois was
planning to witness and drive his car next to
Martin Luther Kings parade and speech but he had
sadly died the day before. Lastly Dubois was the
and his wife were also the co-founders of the
NAACP. Their theme was People Vs. Color
W.E.B. Dubois and other leaders of the Niagara
Movement.
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Jacob Riis
City living conditions

• Photographer
• Wrote a book called How The Other Half Lives
• Worked for the police for 4 years reporting and
  took pictures of the slum life.

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He tried to preserve the United States wilderness
and animals. He traveled around the U.S. studying
everything in the wilderness.
John Muir even got Theodore Roosevelt to save
Yosemite, Sequoia and kings Canyon, and the Grand
Canyon.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_Trail
John Muir made observations and pencil sketches
in his journals and made books to try and prove
his point that we need to preserve the wilderness.
John Muir
Conservationist
He got popular and federal support for forest
conservations and the making of national parks.

• John Muir was a conservationist who wanted to
  help the environment and try to make people
  realize we might be destroying our world.

To find out more about what John Muir did read
his books called The Mountains of California and
Steep Trails.
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Ida Tarbell

• Tarbell supported herself by writing many
  articles on the City of Light for the popular
  magazines of those days.

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ents/p_tarbell.html
Monopolies and trusts
For two years she looked through volumes of
public records including court testimony, state
and federal reports and newspaper coverage. From
these, she gathered much information on
Rockefellers standard oil.
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N.A.A.C.P(national association for the
advancement of colored people)

• The N.A.A.C.Ps goal to was to end racism and
  make sure that African Americans were treated
  equally under the law. Also it was created in
  1909.
• Some things they did to end segregation was
  fighting for unfair laws, and also they tried to
  get the 13th amendment to apply to the Americans.
• They tried to help the African Americans manage
  their money and the N.A.A.C.P helped get
  scholarships for the African Americans to be able
  to go to college.

http//www.naacp.org/about/history/index.htm?gclid
CNW5zdiFxpgCFQEpGgodKgPZ1A
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Frances Elizebeth Willard
Designing a petition against legalizing the sale
of alcoholic beverages, Frances Willard and the
W. C. T. U. had the petition signed in all parts
of the world.

• As president of the Women's Christian Temperance
  Union, Frances Willard pronounced speeches in
  almost every state before reaching the age of 50.

The society of which she was president had many
lines of work, classified as preventive,
educational, national prohibition, political
prohibition, prohibition through woman's ballot.
These are all methods to which she is devoted.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Willard_(suff
ragist)
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Booker T. Washington

• Increasing the rights of African- Americans

A leader in Higher Education for the black
people of the South
He believed that learning a trade was the way for
black people to gain social independence, not
through politics.
When Booker T. died in 1915, he had turned a run
down old building into the thriving Tuskegee
Institute (now a University) with over 1,500
students.
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Seneca Falls Convention
Associated with women's right, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Lucretia Mott
In New York, July 1848. Elizabeth wrote
declaration of sentiments for woman's rights
First woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Trusts/Monopolies

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the earliest law
to outlaw monopolistic practices. It was the
Congresss response to the publics
dissatisfaction with the growth and development
of industrial monopolies. This act also states
that anyone who attempts to monopolize or combine
with other people to monopolize any part of the
trade would be committed of felony. Though the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed early in July
of 1890, it took over ten years before it
actually broke up industrial monopolies.
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ro-00009-S5-Monopoly/dp
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
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Susan B. Anthony
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anb.anthony
In 18200-1906 Susan B. Anthony fought for womans
rights to vote for over a century. As people made
fun of and insulted her, but she still began
traveling to different countries making speeches
and organizing clubs for womans rights.
As Susan B. Anthony began her work, all women had
very little legal rights. Now today through the
work that she has done women have the right for
higher education, the opportunity to work at
almost every job, a right to take over and
control their land and children, and the right
to vote.
http//womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_an
thony.htm
1) The fact is, women are in chains, and their
servitude is all the more Debasing because they
do not realize it.
Quotes
2) Men and their rights are nothing more that
woman and their rights.
3) The older I get, the more power I seem to
have.
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Trusts
Teddy Roosevelt
While president Teddy transformed the government
into a defender of the public interest. He
controlled trust within reasonable limits and
also brought back the Sherman Antitrust Act. He
was called the trustbuster and sued 25 major
corporations while in office including railroad
companies and oil companies. Teddy asked
Congress to create a Department of Commerce and
Labor, and a Bureau of Corporations to
investigate business corporations and warn the
about practices harmful to the public.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation(saving the environment)
Theodore Roosevelt was not only our president, he
was also an environmentalist. He added 148,000
acres to national forests including Ozark
National Forest. He made the Okefenokee Wildlife
Refuge to protect all but 55 square miles of the
swamp from anymore development.
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He also reserved additional acres of coal
deposits, phosphate beds, and water power sites.
In 1908 national natural resources was initiated.
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One of his cartoons was about the dishonesty from
political people.
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Corruption in Cities
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He was a cartoonist.
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He is best known for his attack on politics of
William M. Tweed.
Thomas Nast
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Thomas Nast

• Was a popular cartoonist who used his drawing to
  show the corruption in the world.
• Created most of his drawings in the 1860s to
  show the corruption of William Magear Tweed.
  (politician)

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Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair wrote more than 90 novels, he is
best known for his novel, The Jungle, which
describes the working conditions in the meat
packing factory in Chicago.
Sinclair's, The Jungle, was to tell the public
about the working and labor conditions.
The first food inspection laws in the United
States came as a result of The Jungle
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William "Boss" Tweed
Corruption in Cities

• All in all, Tweed and his allies stole between 40
  and 200 million dollars from public funds

http//go.grolier.com/gol

• When his thievery was discovered, Tweed fled to
  Spain, where he was recognized in a Thomas Nast
  cartoon and returned to New York

• Tweed gained alliance with the Tammany Society,
  which was an organization that had a lot of
  influence over New York City politics

• Tweeds various political positions included U.S.
  Representative, school commissioner, and a place
  on the county board of supervisors

Nast depicts Tweeds arrest
http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtweed.htm
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Womens Christian Temperance union (WCTU) was
founded in 1874 to teach the youth about how
dangerous alcoholic beverages and drugs are.
Frances E. Willard (Second national president)
Mrs. Annie Turner Wittenmyer (First national
president)
Women's Christian Temprence Union
The 18th amendment was passed by congress in 1917
and ratified in January 1919. The amendment was
to prohibit the manufacture, sale or
transportation of intoxicating liquors. It was
a unenforceable law.
During the 19th through early 20th century the
WCTU became a national group was going against
liquor.
http//www.wctu.org/