Who's Who in US History - STAAR EOC Review

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*Sat on a whites' only train car in 1892 to challenge segregation in court
*The result was that segregation was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1896

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Homer Plessy

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*Wanted civil rights immediately in the early 1900s
*Co-founded the NAACP

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W.E.B. DuBois

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*Argued for economic skills and vocational education for African Americans in the late 1800s
*Believed that civil rights would come gradually
*Started the Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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*Led the anti-lynching campaign
*Was an advocate for full and immediate equality in the late 1800s and early 1900s

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Ida B. Wells

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*Middle-class woman who engaged in social work
*Opened the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
*Focused on helping the urban poor and helping immigrants assimilate to American life

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Jane Addams

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*Democrat who led the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City
*Known for his corruption but also for helping new immigrants adjust to life in America

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Boss Tweed

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*Muckraker who wrote the book The Jungle
*His work led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

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Upton Sinclair

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*"Trust-buster" president
*His program was the Square Deal
*He is known for promoting the National Park System
*He had the Big Stick Policy and arranged to get the Panama Canal

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Theodore Roosevelt

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*Advocated for a strong navy
*Was an expansionist

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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*Responsible for taking Hawaii for the US
*Owned sugar plantations
*Became the president of Hawaii after overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani

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Sanford Dole