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 * __Muckrakers:__** People in the United States who had become dissatisfied with the political corruption, and unsafe working condidions during their time period, and began to write articles exposing the "muck" they saw in the American society they lived in.
 * __Suffragettes__** Suffragetes was a term used to describe the more vocal members of the womens suffarage movement, or the women's rights movement during the late 19th centuy and the early 20th century. Suffrage was a term used to mean the right to vote__.__
 * __Eugene V. Debs:__** Was the union leader for the railroad union during the railroad strike. Debs was also the union leader for a union he tried to start known as the industrial workers of the world, which was a union that was supposed to help workers by all the workers in every job all over the united states go on strike if just one group of workers was being mistreated to help get better working conditions for every body. Debs ran for president while in jail with socialilst veiws, but met with little success in his endeavors.
 * __President Theodore Roosevelt__** President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the republican president in 1901, and he mained president for two terms, then ran for a thrid with his self formed "Bull-Moose" Party. Roosevelt was known for his rough outdoorsman personality, and his political technique of speak softly and carry a big stick. While this veiw wasn't good for building international relations, it did help to accomplish big projects such as the panama canal. Theodore was known as "Teddy" Roosevelt by his wife, and even though many people called him Teddy, he dislkied the name execpt for when his wife used it. After Teddy finished his second term in office as president, he left Willam H. Taft as president and went on vacation for a long time. When Theodore came back from vacation, he was dissatisfied with tafts movements while in office, and decided to run against him in the upcoming election, where Theodore formed his Bull-Moose Party. Prior to one of Theodore's speechs, he was shot in the chest but the wound was not fatal, and he proceeded to speak, showing the crowd that he was as fit as a bull moose. Theodore may have one the election if he hadn't split the republican party, and consequently lost to democrat Woodrow Wilson.
 * __Woodrow Wilson:__** Woodrow Wilson was the president after Theodore Roosevelt. Wilson was narrowly re-elected again after his first term in office. During Wilsons term in office, world war one began, and he was informed of the treaty purposed by germany with mexico. Although Wilson had tried hard to keep the united states our of the war, the treaty forced him to ask congress to delcare war.
 * __Triangle Shirtwaist Factory:__** Was home to the largest industrial disaster until 2001. The factory employed many immigrant workers who were locked into their workspaces every day to prevent the theft of the clothing items they made. When the factory caught fire, the doors were still locked, and many of the women jumped to their deaths to try and escape the fire, one of the workers survived the fire. After this tradgedey, congress passed laws to making a minimum safety requirement for industrial buildings.
 * __Graduated Income Tax:__** A Graduated Income tax is a tax that requires you to pay more the more money you make. Income taxes are a form of graduated incoem tax, because they require the people who make more money to pay more taxes.
 * __Plessy v. Ferguson:__** Was a major supreme court case in which the constitutionality of the "seperate, but equal veiw of the united states was made. The court moved that the view was equal, and it wasn't repealled until the Brown v . Board of Education case. The case began when Homer Plessey, a man who was one eighth black boarded a white railway car, and was arrested for riding a white railway car eventough he was black. Plessy lost the case 7 to 1.
 * __League of Nations:__** Was a group of united nations formed to help the worlds problems. This fore runner to the united nations had the goal of solving international problems. The Leauge was formed by Woodrow Wilson, and although it was the American President who formed the leauge of nations, the united states never joined the leauge.
 * __Hull House:__** The Hull house was a building dedicated to educating poor european immigrantsw and helping them get a start in the american society. The Hull house was formed by Jane Addams in an attempt to house, feed, and educate the European immigrants. The Hull house was veiwed as a success, and other such houses soon began to open after it's success.