| A | B |
| Jane Addams | established Hull House in Chicago, president of woman's league for peace and freedom |
| Dorothea Dix | American Philanthropist, established a school for girls in Boston |
| W.E.B DuBois | research on the black experience in the United States |
| Marcus Garvey | created a "Black to Africa" |
| Booker T Washington | urged blacks to attempt to up lift themselves through educational attainments and economic advancement |
| Lucretia Mott | abolitionist and feminist and made her home as an underground railroad |
| John Muir | American explorer and naturalist |
| George Pendleton | senator test for some federal jobs and political test for officeholders |
| Gifford Pinchot | he thought the forest should be protected |
| Jacob Riis | he was photographer and journalist, he wrote social reform books |
| Theodore Roosevelt | hiring workers for government jobs based on their skills |
| Margaret Sanger | founded the planned parenthood corporation and birth control pills |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | American Anit-Slavery society, she founded the first women rights |
| Harriet Tubman | helped free slaves through the underground railroad |
| Woodrow Wilson | prohibition of child labor, prohibition of alcoholic beverages, and natural resources |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | President of NAWSA, rights for women to vote |
| William Howard | He made lower tarrifs |
| Thomas Nast | Pilitical cartoonist who exposed corruption within the government |
| Muckrakers | journalist of the late 1800s and 1900s who tried to alert the public to alleged worngdoing by politicians and big business |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote the book the "Jungle" that delt with the meat markets |