WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Clara Barton
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Jane Addams
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Mary Baker Eddy
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Elizabeth Lease (September 11, 1850 – October 29, 1933) was an American lecturer, writer, Georgist, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the People’s Party (Populists).
Detailed explanation-2: -Lease mesmerized audiences in Kansas, Missouri, the Far West, and the South with her powerful voice and charismatic speaking style. In this speech before the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in 1890, Lease championed the power of women in late-19th century grassroots political movements.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Populists were an agrarian-based political movement aimed at improving conditions for the country’s farmers and agrarian workers.