Muckrakers & Reformers People

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a Progressive reformer and the most prominent advocate for the settlement house movement, which was dedicated to improving social conditions for immigrants and other res...

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the final push for the vote before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. Sh...

Carry A. Nation (1846-1911) was a deeply religious temperance activist in Kansas. Nation secured a place for herself in the history books when she traded her seemingly ineffective Women's Christian...

Alice Paul (1885-1977), suffragette and founder of the National Women's Party, was a central figure in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage and one of the most radi...

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was a prominent African-American activist who served as president of the National Association of Colored Women, the only national organization that represented black...

William Marcy Tweed (1823-1878), commonly known as Boss Tweed, led Tammany Hall, New York City's notorious Democratic political machine. During the 1860s and '70s, Tweed and his Tammany associates&...

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was the twenty-sixth president of the United States, a leader of the Republican Party and, later, the Progressive movement. He was the first president to become a tru...