| A | B |
| Jane Adams | Urban reformer who created the hull house. |
| Dorothea Dix | prison reformer, created institute for criminally insane |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Called for blacks to attend colleges |
| Marcus Garvey | Encouraged blacks to return to homeland(Africa), "black pride" |
| Booker T Washington | Encouraged blacks to learn trades and created Tuskagee Inst. in Alabama |
| Lucretia Mott | Women's rights leader who organized 1st women's convention in Seneca Falls |
| John Muir | Promoted creation of national parks and reservations |
| George Pendleton | Help establish civil service exam for federal jobs. (Pendleton Act) |
| Gifford Pinchot | Conservationist who served as chief of the U.S. Forest Service |
| Jacob Riis | Journalist who exposed industrial problems during Progressive Era |
| Theodore Roosevelt | "Trust Buster" who broke up 44 trusts to protect consumers |
| Margaret Sanger | Campaigned for birth control and started Planned Parenthood |
| Elizabeth Stanton | Wrote Declaration of Sentiments for women and organized women's conventions |
| Harriet Tubman | creator of the Underground Railroad to free black slaves |
| Woodrow Wilson | "New Freedom" president, and helped fight for worker's rights |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Helped secure 19th amendment and headed the NAWSA |
| William Howard Taft | "Dollar Diplomacy" to help foriegn relations |
| Thomas Nast | Political Cartoonist who exposed corruption within the government (exposed Tweed Ring) |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote "The Jungle" and an effect of this book was the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Muckrakers | journalists that exposed problems in country and published them in newspapers |