| A | B |
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| Jane Addams & Jacob Riis | Progressives who fought for the urban poor |
| Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leaders of the women's suffrage movement |
| William Jennings Bryan | Secretary of State during WWI, joined the prosecution team in the teaching evolution SCOPES TRIAL |
| Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller, JP Morgan | Robber Barrons of the Gilded Age, became super wealthy through ruthless business tactics |
| Jimmy Carter | President in the 70's during the start of OPEC, Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Iran Hostage Scandal. Negotiated the Camp David Accords. |
| Bill Clinton | President in the 90's, negotiated NAFTA, presidency was plagued by sex scandals |
| Calvin Coolidge | Republican President during the Roaring 20's following the Teapot Dome Scandal of Harding's presidency. |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave turned abolitionist prior to the start of the Civil War. |
| WEB Dubois & Booker T. Washington | Prominent leaders of African American rights in the late 1800's. WEB Dubois believed in achieveing equality through protesting equal rights. Washington believed equality would be achieved through education. |
| Gerald Ford | Only President to be APPOINTED not elected, following Nixon's resignation. He pardoned Nixon. |
| Henry Ford | Responsible for the assembly line in the 1920's, revolutionized factory production, led to a decrease in consumer prices. |
| Betty Friedan & Gloria Steinem | Fought for women's rights in the 60's and 70's, wanted women to have careers and maternity benefits. |
| Marcus Garvey | Unlike Dubois and Washington, Garvey believed in black separtism and a "back-to-Africa" movement. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Led the Union in the Civil War, became 18th President |
| Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of Treasury under Washington, was a loose constructionist who wanted the creation of the National Bank |
| Herbert Hoover | Republican President during the Great Depression who was largely blamed due to his inaction. |
| Langston Hughes | African American writer during the Harlem Renaissance, that focused on racial inequality. |
| Andrew Jackson | President during the removal of Natives on the Trail of Tears |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Became President after JFK's assassination, known for his social welfare program "Great Society" to help minorities and the poor achieve equality |
| John F. Kennedy | President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, expanded Civil Rights, Assassinated in downtown Dallas |
| Martin Luther King Jr. + Malcolm X | African American leaders of Civil Rights, differed greatly- MLK believed in civil disobedience and peaceful protests, MX believed in violence and nonviolence |
| Samuel Gompers, Eugene Debs, Terrence Powderly | Leaders of Labor Unions during the Industrial Age |
| Abraham Lincoln | President during the Civil War, held the war was being fought to preserve the union |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the Pacific theater during WWII, was removed from his job during the Korean War for wanting to expand the war into Japan |
| John Marshall | became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. He is largely responsible for establishing the Supreme Court's role in federal government |
| Thurgood Marshall | Head of the NAACP, successfully won Brown v. BD of Ed, and was our nation's first black supreme court justice |
| Joseph McCarthy | head of the House of UnAmerican Activities, he searched out communist influences in the US, from his name "McCarthyism" comes about |
| Richard Nixon | Had a Cold War Policy of Detente, helped to ease CW tensions with Russia and China, was known for the Watergate Scandal |
| Thomas Paine | wrote " Common Sense" giving justification for why the early colonies should have a revolution against GB. |
| Rosa Parks | known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Civil Rights Era |
| FDR | President during the Great Depression, WWII, greatly expanded the gov'ts role in everyday lives with his New Deal programs, tried to pack the supreme court |
| Teddy Roosevelt | Progressive President, Conservationist, built the Panama Canal, and dealt alot with the policies of Latin American countries through the Roosevelt Corrollary |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | were convicted of being communist spies in the 50's and sentenced to death. |
| Dred Scott | Slave taken into free territory by his own, sued for his freedom and lost. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a fictional story that brought light to the abolitionist movement |
| Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Marshall | Justices to the Supreme Court |
| Harry Truman | President during the end of WWII, descision to drop the atomic bomb, Truman Doctrine-Cold War |
| Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Thomas Nast | Muckrakers during the Progressive Era that's work lead to reform. (Meat Industry, Oil Monopolies, Political Corruption. |
