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The Birth Of Modern America

  • Susan B. Anthony

    March 13, 1906
    - Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs
    Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
  • clarence darrow

    March 13 1938
    - Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt
    Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States.
  • William Jennings Bryan

    Died July 26, 1925
    - William Jennings Bryan was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
  • Ida B. Well

    Died March 25, 1931
    - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Died in November 28, 1968
    -Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle
  • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19thAmendments

    16th - Allows the congress to levy an income tax without appotioning it among the states ir basing it on the united states.
    17th - constitution established direct election of united states senators by popular vote.
    18th - Constitution effectively established the prohibition of acholic beverages in United States by declaration of independents the production.
    19th - Cpnstitution prohibits any United States citizens from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex