| A | B |
| George Eastman | inventor of roll-film camera |
| Marshall Field | opened the nation's first department store in Chicago |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | landscape architect that lead the movement for planned urban parks |
| Louis Sullivan | designed the first skyscraper |
| W.E.B. DuBois | thought educated blacks should immediately join the mainstream of society |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | developed the first powered airplane |
| Ida B. Wells | tried to end the lynching of African Americans by writing and lecturing |
| Mark Twain | He was a novelist and humorist that wrote books that have become American classics |
| Booker T Washington | Founded the Tuskegee Institute to help African Americans develop useful job skills |
| William Randolph Hearst | In competion with Joseph Pulitzer, he published sensational stories in his newspapers |