Important+Progressive+Activists

Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Socialist · Goal: Ban alcohol · Prohibition
 * 1. Frances Willard **

2. Jane Addams
Key accomplishments/historical significance:

· Whole house: open for new immigrants and poor people.
**3. Lewis Hine ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Photojournalist (focused in Chicago and Ellis Island) · Took pictures of people working and immigrants coming. · Worked for Red Cross · Put pressure on the government to end child labor laws.

**4. Lincoln Steffens ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Journalist, wrote many books · “Shame of the cities” · Exposed corruption in business and government (St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York  **5. Margaret Sanger  **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  Founder of Planned Parenthood and first birth control clinic  ·  Supporter of women’s rights   **6. Carrie Chapman Catt **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  Reporter  ·  President of League of Women Voters, NAWSA  ·  Went state by state to get each state to let women vote.   **7. Robert LaFollette **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  Wisconsin idea  ·  First workers compensation (injured in worker you would get money)   ·  Representative, district attorney.   ·  Self nominated himself as senator (Against World War I)  ·  Wisconsin was the first state to have workers compensation and child labor laws.   ·  Ran for president (only had 17% of the votes)   ·  First person to bring in experts on a topic (brought people in from the University of Wisconsin) (Tried to benefit the people not the politicians.) **8. Ida Tarbell ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Was one of the first muckraking journalists Wrote a book about John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company **9. Lilian Wald ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Known for her nursing skills. · Health care reform. · Put nursing in public schools (school nurses) · Founded Metropolitan Life Insurance Company · Board of Sanitary control · Changed the way of health for everybody **10. John Dewey ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Changed how people learn in America · Philosopher · In order to have a democracy, you need to have well-educated people in that field · Advocate of public education **11. Booker T. Washington ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: ·   **12. Ida B. Wells  ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Women’s rights advocate · Journalist · Sued railroad company for being kicked off a train · First African-American women to run for public office · Anti-Lyching (   **13. W.E.B. DuBois  **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  One of the founders for the NSAACP   ·  First African American to graduate from Harvard   **14. Alice Paul  **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  Equal rights for men and women.   ·  Chair for the National Women’s party   ·  She succeed until the day she died.   ·  Radical and direct   **15. Florence Kelley  **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  She helped social reformers at the whole house.   ·  Wanted limited working hours for children   ·  National consumers legal and women’s international league for peace   ·  Wanted to protect women and children in the work place   **16. Jacob Riis  **  Key accomplishments/historical significance:  ·  Photographer   ·  Devoted himself to changing the slums   ·  Developed the modern tenement   ·  “How the other half lived” his book **17. Gifford Pinchot ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Conservation of the national forest · Started national parks **18. Walter Rauschenbusch ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · Minister · Tried to spread socialism · Leader of the social gospel · Helped people solve their problems by using religion **19. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones ** Key accomplishments/historical significance: · International social review · Wrote about women’s careers · March: from New York to Pennsylvania (Protest about children working when they should be in school)