apush unit 7 figures

• Jane Addams


  the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
• Hull House


  settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty
• Progressive Era


  an era in the United States (roughly between 1900 and 1917) in which important movements challenged traditional relationships and attitudes.
• Ida Tarbell


  American journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company(1904); she was among a group of so-called muckrakers who helped establish the field of investigative journalism
• Wobblies


  popular name for the members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
• Booker T. Washington


  educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1895 and 1915
• W.E.B. DuBois


  an American sociologist, socialist, historian, editor, author, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century; shared in the creation of the NAACP in 1909
• NAACP


  interracial organization co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois in 1910 dedicated to restoring African American political and social rights
• Theodore Roosevelt


  an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909
• William Howard Taft


  the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices
• New Nationalism


  Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice
• Victoriano Huerta


  Attempted to reestablish centralized dictatorship in Mexico following the removal and murder of Madero in 1913; forced from power in 1914 by Villa and Zapata
• Allies


  In WWI, Britain, France, Russia, and other belligerent nations fighting against the Central Powers, not including the U.S.
• Committee on Public Information (CPI)


  government agency during WWI that sought to shape public opinion in support of the war effort through newspapers, pamphlets, speeches, films, and other media
• Carrie Chapman Catt


  president of NAWSA, who led the campaign for woman's suffrage during Wilson's administration
• Big Four

  David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Orlando of Italy and Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.
• Central Powers

  Germany and its WWI allies in Austria, Italy, Turkey, and Bulgaria
• Henry Cabot Lodge


  Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations