• Carry Nation was a temperance
reformer, who took her “reforming” to
the extreme. Nation is most known for
destroying saloons with her hatchet, out
of anger. Carry’s anger formed out of her
first husband’s alcohol use, and often
drunk-ness.
•Turned down by the
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
(WCTU), Carry went
At the time, liquor was illegal
in Kansas, and she believed looking to get her dislike
of alcoholism heard.
wherever they sold it that it
When, that wasn’t
was wrong. In the 1890’s she
working for Carry
began her rage on saloons
Nation, she turned to
and bars in Kansas. Then,
worked to other places in the violence to solve her
ways.
country, bambarding bars
with her hatchet, and other
weapons.
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Theodore Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt wanted to use the government to
break up the bad trusts/monopolies.
• He created the Northern Securities Company, a railroad
monopoly in the Northwest. This suit launched a “trustbusting” crusade against big business that would carry
over into Roosevelt's second term.
• He became the first president to intervene in a labormanagement dispute.
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•Born a Slave and later became a Agricultural
Chemist
•Helped Modernize the agricultural economy of
the south
•Developed new products from peanuts, sweet
potatoes and soy beans
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• Theodore Roosevelt claimed many acres of
public land to be off limits and to save them
from lumber, and mineral companies.
• He also asked Congress to set up forest
services to keep forests from being destroyed or
harmed.
• Also, the Theodore Roosevelt national park was
named for his generous conservation of the
environment.
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Lewis W. Hine
• Hired by National Child Labor Committee
in 1911.
• Traveled through eastern United States
photographing exploited children.
• Secretly took notes in jacket while
• talking to children.
•
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Sherman AntiTrust Act
• Sherman Antitrust act was used to bust up
monopolies
• It banned monopoly cartels
• It was named after John Sherman
• Theodore Roosevelt was the President at the time
the law was passed
• Another law named Clayton Antitrust act also was
created to enforce the Sherman Antitrust act
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*Elizabeth Cady Stanton was against
temperance and anti-slavery.
*She also organized the Seneca Falls
Convention.
*Also she fought for more liberal divorce
laws, not as strict clothing for women,
coeducation, and married women could
control the property.
Gifford Pinchot
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