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College Admissions Activity
We’re going to suspend disbelief in several ways for this activity. First, we’ll pretend that the class is actually an admissions committee for a prestigious university. Next, let’s assume that the people listed below have applied for admission to our university. We can only admit twelve of these people. Your task is to decide which applicants to admit. You should base your decision on your knowledge of what these people will accomplish in their lifetimes. You will need to research what these people did using your textbook or the Internet. You may use whatever criteria for admissions that seems to you most likely to result in an exemplary class of students, however, you may not just say you’re voting for some guy because he’s rich or fat or some such reason that lacks historical substance. Your reasons must be based on your knowledge of what these people accomplished. (Remember this is a history class.)
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Ida Tarbell |
Jacob Riis |
John D. Rockefeller |
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Edward Bellamy |
Walter Rauschenbush |
Andrew Carnegie |
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Upton Sinclair |
Margaret Sanger |
J. P. Morgan |
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Frances Willard |
Alice Paul |
William McKinley |
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Emma Goldman |
Carrie Chapman Catt |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Eugene V. Debs |
Jane Addams |
William Howard Taft |
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William “Big Bill” Haywood |
Booker T. Washington |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
Robert La Follette |
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John Muir |
Frederick
Winslow Taylor |
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Fill in the following
chart as you research the applicants.
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Name |
Lifetime Accomplishments – What this
person is famous for |
Your rating on a scale of 1 – 5 (with 5
being best) of this candidate |
Reasons for your rating |
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Ida Tarbell |
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Edward Bellamy |
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Upton Sinclair |
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Frances Willard |
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Emma Goldman |
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Eugene V. Debs |
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William “Big Bill” Haywood |
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones |
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John Muir |
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Jacob Riis |
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Walter Rauschenbush |
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Margaret Sanger |
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Alice Paul |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
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Jane Addams |
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Booker T. Washington |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
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Frederick
Winslow Taylor |
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John D. Rockefeller |
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Andrew Carnegie |
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J. P. Morgan |
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William McKinley |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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William Howard Taft |
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Woodrow Wilson |
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Robert La Follette |
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