Top 100 Most Influential Americans

Rate each one of the following Americans from 1 - 9, with 9 being extremely influential and 1 being not too influential.


  1. The Wright Bothers - Orville and Wilbur got us off the ground.
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  1. Ulysses S. Grant - A poor President but the general Lincoln needed in the Civil War.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Babe Ruth - He saved the national pastime and permanently linked sports and celebrity.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Rachel Carson - The author of Silent Spring was godmother to the environmental movement.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. George Washington - The first President made the United States possible by defeating a king and by declining to become one himself.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson - The spokeperson for individualism, he relied on himself and wrote that we should do the same.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Noah Webster - He didn't create an American English, but his dictionary defined it.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Frederick Douglas - After escaping from slavery, he picked the nations conscience with an eloquint accounting of its crimes.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Walter Lippmann - The last man who could swing an election with a newspaper column.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Sam Walton - The founder of Walmart.
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  1. Lewis and Clark - They went west to explore and millions followed.
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  1. Theodore Roosevelt - whether busting trusts or buildign the erie canal, this president blazed a trail for the 20th century.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Benjamin Franklin - A diplomat, scientist, printer, writer, inventor and more.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Susan B. Anthony - The countries most eloquent voice for women's equality.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Bill Gates - Founder of microsoft and the current richest man on earth.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Jonathan Edwards - America's most influential theologian.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Cyrus McCormick - his mechanical reaper signaled the beginning of industrial agriculture.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Elvis Presley - The King of Ropck and Roll.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Eleanor Roosevelt - the most popular "first lady" of all time.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Samuel Morse - Inventor of the Morse code.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Henry Ford - Inventor of the assembly line and Model T automobile.
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  1. Andrew Jackson - a great populist president fought the battle of 1812.
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  1. Ralph Nader - He made the cars we drive saferfrom his consumer reports, and then made george Bush President in 2000.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Benjamin Spock - With one book he changed American parenting.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Louis Armstrong - talented jazz musician.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William Faulkner - The most gifted historical writer of America's south.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. John Dewey - Made the American education system into a unique place to teach democratic life.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. James K. Polk - President that gave us California, Texas and the southwest.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Ernest Hemmingway - Writer from the Florida Keys wrote, The Sun also Rises, and Old Man of the Sea.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Sandra Day O'Connor - first female Supreme Court Justice.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Frank Lloyd Wright - America's most significan architect.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Thomas Jefferson - Third President and author of the Declaration of Independence.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Walt Disney - founder of the wonderful world of Disney.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Eli Whitney - Invented the cotton gin which helped keep slavery alive in America.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Ronald Reagan - Helped end the cold war and made conservatism popular.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Jonas Salk - His vaccine for polio ended one of the worst plagues in human history.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. John Marshall - Made the supreme court equal to the two other branches.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Thomas Paine - Wrote "Common Sense" which brought the colonists to the fight.
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  1. JP Morgan - Great wall street banker.
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  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which set the stage for the Civil War.
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  1. Samuel Gompers - Made the age of labor unions possible.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Margaret Sanger - The voice of birth control for women.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. PT Barnum - Made the Circus into a spectacle of entertainment.
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  1. Robetrt Oppenheimer - the father of the atomic bomb.
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  1. Horace Mann - The father of American education.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Oprah Winfrey - talk show host and entrepeneur became a trusted voice for American women.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. George Gallop - His polls asked Americans what they thought.
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  1. Lyman Beecher - An abolitionist and evangelist.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. John Steinbeck - wrote "Grapes of Wrath" that told of the depression.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Abraham Lincoln - Saved the Union, freed the slaves, and reconstructed America.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Thurgood Marshall - The first black Supreme Court Justice helped civil rights.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Bob Dylan - Songwriter who gave the voice to the 60's generation youth movement.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. James Bennett - publisher of New York Herald which became the prototype for modern American newspapers.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. James Watson - co-discovered DNA, and the code of life.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Henry David Thoreau - Author of Walden inspired people to discover what was authentic in life.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Jane Addams - Founder of Hull Settlement House and became America's social work saint.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William Jennings Bryan - lost three elections but his populism transformed the country.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Jackie Robinson - broke baseball's color barrier for all the world to see.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Albert Einstein - A german at birth, moved to America. Great scientist and mind.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Henry Clay - great legislator and speaker whose compromises held off the civil war for decades.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. John D. Rockefeller - Owner of standard oil became a great philanthropist.
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  1. Mark Twain - wrote Huckleberry Finn and depicted American life.
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  1. Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone.
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  1. Thomas Edison - Invented the lightbulb and many other things.
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  1. Harry S. Truman - Dropped the atomic bomb and set up the sides in the cold war to fight communism.
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  1. John Adams - 2nd President gave legitimacy to American demoocracy.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Enrico Fermi - developed quantum theory and helped with atomic bomb.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Muhammad Ali - Boxer who became outspoken diplomat and best known figure in world during his generation.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Mary Baker Eddy - Founder od Christian Science promising spiritual healing.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. James Cooper - Wrote about the American Frontier inspiring people to go west.
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  1. Steven Spielberg - Director of movies like Star Wars, ET, Indiana Jones, and Shindlers List.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. George Marshall - General in WWII that helped rebuild Europe after the war.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William James - The man behind the philosophy of Pragamtism (tell it like it is).
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Louis Sullivan - architect who developed the skyscraper.
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  1. John C. Calhoun - Slavery's most notable defender.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Robert E. Lee - general for the South in the Civil War.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Martin luther King Jr. - No one did more for racial equality in America.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Elizabeth Cody Stanton - fought for social reform and for women's right to vote.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Earl Warren -m Supreme Court Chief Justice transformed american society in 50's and 60's.
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  1. Dwight Eisenhower - General during WWII also two term President.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Steve Jobs - Co-founder of Apple computers and founder of Pixar entertainment.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William F. Buckley Jr. - conservative author and tv host that set the agenda for discusion.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Margaret Mead - made athropology relevant and controversial.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William Randolph Hearst - Newspaper writer who perfected yellow journalism and helped start the Spanish Ameican War.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. John Brown - Fanatic aboliotionist who lead a slave rebellion which provide the spark for the Civil War.
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  1. John Quincy Adams - 6th President who set America's diplomatic course.
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  1. Oliver Wendell Holmes - Supreme Court Justice that wrote lasting opininions.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Joseph Smith - founder of the Morman religion.
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  1. Brigham Young - took the Mormons to Utah where it flourished.
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  1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - four term president that lead us through the depression and World War II with his New Deal.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Alexander Hamilton - Wrote the federalist papers and changed the country from a farming country to an industrial powerhouse.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Walt Whitman - Poet who shaped the countries conception of itself.
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  1. WEB DuBois - American civil rights leader and intellectual.
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  1. Lyndon Johnson - President during civil rights and vietnam war.
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. William Lloyd Garrison - Editor of famous abolitionist newparer "The Liberator".
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


  1. Frederick Law Olmsted - gave us New York's Central Park which inspired parks everywhere.
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  1. Betty Friedan - Spoke up for women who were forced into taking the role of housewife.
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  1. James Madison - fourth President who fathered the Constitution and wrote the Bill of Rights.
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  1. Woodrow Wilson - President during progressive era and WWI who started League of Nations.
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  1. Andrew Carnegie - owner of US Steel became billionaire then gave it all away to libraries and other charities.
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Mr. Brech
Seven Springs Middle School
New Port Richey , FL