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| Andrew Carnegie | A business man who was a philanthropist, and made his welt in steel. |
| John Rockefeller | Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other words made an amazing monopoly. |
| Robber Baron | a negative term for business leaders that implied they built their fortunes by stealing from the public |
| William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school |
| Jacob Riis | Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives" exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC |
| Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes |
| Frances Willard | Became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Author who argued in 1890 that the economic future of the United States rested on new overseas markets protected by a larger navy. Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" |
| Sanford B. Dole | 1894 wealthy, plantation owner and politician who was named President of New Republic of Hawaii. He asked US to annex Hawaii. |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States, 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal |
| Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. |
| Susan B. Anthony | Key leader of woman suffrage movement, social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation |
| W.E.B Du Bois | believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediatly; founded the NAACP |
| Ida B.Wells | African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores |
| General John J. Pershing | General of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI |
| Alvin York | killed 25 machine-gunners and captured 132 German soldiers when his soldiers took cover; won Congressional Medal of Freedom |
| Marcus Garvey | African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa |
| Henry Ford | American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents |
| Glenn Curtiss | Was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. |
| Clarence Darrow | A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. |
| Charles Lindbergh | completed the first non- stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from New York to Paris |
| President Harding | This president promised a "return to normalcy" when he was elected. His administration was full of scandal and corruption, including the Teapot Dome scandal. |
| President Coolidge | He became president after Harding died in office. He fired those involved in the scandals; increased government support of business and encouraged a continuation and expansion of Harding's policies. |
| President Hoover | the president who was in office when the depression started. He believed that if the government got involved it would only make the depression worse. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Established the civilian conservation Corps, which employed more than 175,000 men to plant trees, make paths and roads in national parks and forests, build dams to control flooding, and perform other activities to protect natural resources. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife. Traveled, spoke and wrote for new deal; reshaped First Lady's role. Also fought for civil rights |
| Adolf Hitler | Austrian born Dictator of Germany, invaded Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. led during WWII and instituted the final solution (holocaust) |
| Rosie the Riveter | name given to a fictitious woman who served as a patriotoc woman who helped the war effort by working in factories. |
| George Marshall | Formulated a program providing economic aid to European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan provided massive American economic assistance to help Europe recover from the war. |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Top Allied commander in Europe supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Later 34th president |
| Omar Bradley | A general of the twentieth century. Bradley commanded the United States ground forces in the liberation of France and the invasion of Germany in World War II. |
| George Patton | Allied Commander of the Third Army. Was instrumental in winning the Battle of the Bulge. Considered one of the best military commanders in American history. |
| Vernon J. Baker | Awarded Medal of Honor in 1997 for heroic acts in Italy in 1945 |
| Tuskegee Airmen | all black unit of fighter pilots. trained in Tuskegee Alabama. won many awards for bravery and never lost a single pilot |
| Flying Tigers | American pilots who volunteered to fight for China |
| Douglas MacArthur | army commander in Pacific; at Bataan "I shall return" retook Philippines and led rebuilding after WWII |
| Navajo Code Talkers | Succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his death. Led the country through the last few months of World War II, and made the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. |
| Billy Graham | An Evangelist fundamentalism preacher who gained a wide following in the 1950s with his appearances across the country and overseas during and after the war. |
