| Term | Definition |
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| Booker T. Washington | This man headed a black normal and industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. He taught the people useful trades so that they could gain self-respect and merit a position of economic equality with the whites |
| W.E.B. Dubois | This man earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, the first of his race to achieve this goal. He demanded fill equality for blacks,social and economic, and he helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. |
| Geronimo | This Native American lead the apache tribes of Arizona |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | This woman wrote "a century of dishonor" - she felt sorry for the indians |
| Oliver H. Kelly | This man was the leader of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry |
| James B. Weaver | This man was a favorite of the civil war veterans, he was elected to run for the Greenbackers. |
| Jacob Coxey | This man was accompanied with supporters demanded that the government relieve unemployment. He was eventually arrested for walking on the grass of the nation's capital. |
| William Jennings Bryan | This man ran against Mckinley in the election of 1896 |
| Jane Adams | This middle class woman was deeply dedicated to uplifting the urban masses. She was also know for establishing the Hull House |
| Florence Kelly | The woman fought for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers. She also severed in as general secretary of the National Consumers League |
| Mary Baker Eddy | This woman suffered from health problems. She preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness. |
| William James | This man served 35 years on the Harvard staff and wrote "principles of psychology" etc. |
| Henry George | This man wrote the "Progress and Poverty" |
| Horatio Alger | This man wrote more than 100 volumes of juvenile fiction |
| Mark Twain | This man wrote "the adventures of tom sawyer" and "the adventures of huckleberry finn" |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | This woman wanted women to abandon their dependent status and to contribute to the larger of life. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | This woman wanted women to have the right to vote |
| Cardinal James Gibbons | This man was devoted to American unity, he was extremely popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants. |
| Dwight L. Moody | This man proclaimed the gospel of kindness and forgiveness. He spread his message to many American cities in the 1870s and 1880s |
| Settlement Houses | These houses offered instruction to english, counseling to help newcomers cope with American big city life, child-care services, and cultural activities. |
| American Protective Association | This group was created in 1887, it thrived to meet the nativist goals and it urged voting against Roman Catholic candidates for office. It also sponsored the publication of lustful fantasies about runaway nuns. |
| Modernists | This group of people supported Darwinism and they refused to accept the bible as history or science. |
| Anthony Comstock | This man supported the moral principles of americans. He claimed that he had no fewer than 202,679 obscene pictures and photos. His claim had driven at least fifteen people to suicide. |
| Henry Richardson | This man built the Marshall Field Building in Chicago |
| Native American Battles | Some of the Native American Battles were : The Sioux War, Battle of Sand Creek |
| Dawes Severalty Act | This act wiped out tribal ownership of land and set up individual free acres. |
| Homestead Act | This act established that a settler could acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on the land for a least 5 years. |
| Carrie A. Nation | This woman smashed saloon bottles and bars, she brought a considerable disrepute to the prohibition movement by the violence of her one-womancrusade. |
| Frances Willard | This man was the leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. |
| Louis Sullivan | This man further developed skyscrapers |
| Pension Act of 1890 | This act gave pensions to Civil War veterans who had served for ninety days and were unable to do manual labor. |
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