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Pioneers of Social Change in American History

Explore the impactful lives of Carry A. Nation, Seneca Falls Convention, and Ragtime music in shaping American society. Learn about temperance, suffrage, and cultural movements that left a lasting legacy.

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Pioneers of Social Change in American History

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  1. Carry A. Nation: radical leader of the temperance (anti-alcohol) movement in Kansas who let the Anti-Saloon League carrying a bible and a hatchet which she used to destroy bars. • Seneca Falls: city in New York in the burned over district where women met in 1849 to start their suffrage movement—Seneca Falls Convention. • Ragtime: popular American musical genre from 1895-1918; African American piano composers modified popular march music by syncopating the notes in a ragged rhythm; began in red light districts of New Orleans and St. Louis by Ernest Hogan and Scott Joplin; precursor of Jazz. • Mary Elizabeth Lease: (see Populist Lecture)

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