| A | B |
|---|
| Susan B. Anthony | suffragetter fighting for women's right to vote |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st woman to receive a medical degree in the US; founded 1st nursing school |
| Andrew Carnegie | dominated steel industry; monopoly |
| Rachel Carson | wrote Silent Spring to alert America about the dangers of pesticides |
| Fredrick Douglass | abolitionist and former slave |
| Thomas Edison | developed the first electric light bulb {1879} |
| Geraldine Ferraro | 1st woman to run as Vice-presidential candidate in 1984; issue: woman's equality |
| Henry Ford | inventor of 1st automobile and the assembly line |
| Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of Treasury under Washington; national debt and bank |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Black minister fighting for Blacks rights through civil disobedience |
| Charles Lindburg | made the 1st transatlantic flight solo |
| Joseph McCarthy | claimed he knew of Communists working in the State Department |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1st African-American on the Supreme Court; appointed by Johnson |
| John P. Morgan | created a holding company (buy out stock of other companies) |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | 1st woman in US history to serve as Supreme Court Justice |
| Rosa Parks | African-American woman who refuse to sit at the back of the bus |
| Frances Perkins | 1st woman on the cabinet, Secretary of Labor under FDR |
| Jakcie Robinson | 1st African-American to play major league baseball |
| John D. Rockefeller | formed the Standard Oil Company; monopoly |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | one of the 1st women to fight for women's rights; set up Seneca Falls Convention |
| Sojourner Truth | African-American fighting for women's rights, abolition, prison reform, and temperance |
| Harriet Tubman | former slave and active organizer of Underground Railroad |
