| A | B |
| Jane Addams | founded a settlement house that helped people in Chicago |
| Andrew Carnegie | made the produciton of steel a major industry in the U.S. |
| Samuel Gompers | organized groups of skilled wordersinto the American Federation of Labor |
| William Jenney | built the world's first skyscraper, in Chicago |
| Jacob Lawrence | wrote a book about African Americans moving to northern cities from the South |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph, a way of carrying messages along wires |
| Jacob Riis | wrote a book about the poor living conditions in NYC tenements |
| John Rockefeller | formed the Standard Oil Company and gained almost complete control of the oil industry |