| A | B |
|---|
| Henry Bessemer | created the Bessemer steel process |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Thomas Edison | invented the light bulb and discovered electricity |
| Wright Brothers | invented the airplane |
| Henry Ford | created the assembly line |
| Andrew Carnegie | industrial leader of steel |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | industrial leader in railroads |
| John D. Rockefeller | industrial leader in oil; Standard Oil Company |
| J.P. Morgan | industrial leader in finance and banking |
| Ida B. Wells | leader of anti-lynching crusades |
| Booker T. Washington | believed the way to equality was through vocational education |
| W.E.B. du Bois | believed that education was meaningless without equality |
| Jane Addams | famous in the settlement house movement; founded Hull House |
| Florence Kelley | leader in the movement to end child labor |
