| A | B |
| Jane Adams | Reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s whom reformed housing problems; established the Hull House |
| Dorothea Dix | Pre-Civil War; fought for prison reform and established an institute for the criminally insane |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Pre-Civil War; who fought for African American rights to go to college |
| Marcus Garvey | 1917-1926; encouraged return to Africa "Black Pride" movement |
| Booker T. Washington | 1800s; Encouraged African Americans to learn trades and established the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
| Lucretia Mott | 1848; Organized the first women's convention in Seneca Falls |
| John Muir | late 1800s; Created national parks and reserves |
| George Pendelton | Early 1900s; Pendelton Act which required civil service exams |
| Gifford Pinchot | Early 1900s; Chief of U.S. Forestry |
| Jacob Riis | Prgressive Era; a progressive journalist whom posted industrial problems |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Early 1900s, the "trust Buster" who broke up many trusts and monopolies and broke nearly 44 of them |
| Margaret Sanger | 1800s; Organized womens conventions and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 1920's; Campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood |
| Harriet Tubman | Pre-Civil War; Freed some 300 slaves and established the Underground Railroad |
| Woodrow Wilson | Early 1900s; "New Freedom" which established worker rights, currency reform, etc |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | early 1900s; Womens suffrage and helped secure the 19th amendment, was also head of NAWSA |
| Wiliam Howard Taft | Early 1900s; helped with foreign relations and used "dollar diplomacy" |
| Thomas Nast | 1900s; A political cartoonist who uncovered the "tweed ring" and exposed industrial corruption to the public |
| Upton Sinclair | 1900s; A novelist who wrote the novel "the Jungle" which uncovered health scandals in meat packing and shipping and production which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Muckraker | An individual whom stirs up trouble,scandals, etc |