New York Politician

Criticized in political cartoons by Thomas Nast

Known for political corruption

Leader of Tammany Hall

William “Boss” Tweed

African American

Wrote Up From Slavery

Told blacks they must prove their economic value through hard work

Founded Tuskegee University

Booker T. Washington

Liked band music

Sought to provide food, shelter and temporary employment

Organized his organization with a military structure

Salvation Army

William Booth

Sociologist

African American

The Philadelphia Negro

The Souls of Black Folk

Helped form the NAACP

W. E. B. Du Bois

Campaigned for cuts in tariffs and veterans’ pensions

Democrat

Supported by “mugwumps”

Elected twice

Lost to Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland

Donated $34 million to the University of Chicago

Sought vertical and horizontal integration

Standard Oil

John D. Rockefeller

Honest governor of Ohio

Restored respect to the office of the Presidency

“Lemonade Lucy”

His presidency ended Reconstruction

Rutherford B. Hayes

Novelist

Reformer

Meat packing industry

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Republican

“Half Breed”

Arthur as VP

Assassinated

James A Garfield

Republican

Known for a high tariff

Expanded the Veterans’ Pensioners

Elected in 1896 and 1900

VP was TR

Assassinated

William McKinley

Progressive reformer

Democracy and Social Ethics

Woman

Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams

Racist

Reformer

Democrat

President

Defeated by TR and Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Senator from Colorado

Believed the U.S. should renounce any interest in controlling Cuba

His idea was an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war on Spain

Henry Teller

Chicago Architect

Inspired Frank Lloyd Wright

“form should follow function”

Louis Sullivan

U.S. Admiral

Spanish American War

Battle of Manila Bay

Took control of the Philippines

George Dewey

Economist

Criticized the lifestyles of the capitalist elite

Introduced the idea of “conspicuous spending”

Author of Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

Muckraker

Woman

History of the Standard Oil Company

Ida Tarbell

American’s Woman’s Home

Encouraged the cult of domesticity

Wrote about Victorian etiquette

Her sister wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Catherine Beecher

Newspaper Owner

Yellow Journalism

Owner of The World

Established prize for journalism

Joseph Pulitzer

NYC customs official

Stalwart

VP

Introduced Civil Service Reform,

Became President after Garfield’s assassination

Chester A. Arthur

Novelist

Railroad barons

The Octopus

Frank Norris

Democrat

Presidential Candidate

Populist

Promoted “free silver”

“Cross of Gold Speech”

William Jennings Bryan

Wisconsin Governor

Reformer

Political reforms

“The Wisconsin Idea”

Robert LaFollett