Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

• Lighting

• Mechanical use of

electricity

Alexander Graham Bell

• Telephone

• Telephone service

Jane Addams

• Settlement House

• Hull House

• Chicago, IL

Chief Joseph

• Nez Perce

• Try to escape to Canada

Booker T. Washington

• Born a slave

• Started Tuskegee Institute in Al

• Vocational education

• Accept social segregation now

W.E.B. DuBois

• Full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans

• Founder of NAACP

John D Rockefeller

• Captain of Industry

• Oil

• Had a monopoly

• Philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie

• Captain of industry - steel

• Homestead Strike

• Philanthropist

Henry Ford

• Captain of Industry - automobile

• Assembly Line

• Philanthropist

Susan B. Anthony

• Suffragist; 19th Amendment

Woodrow Wilson

• WWI and the 14 Points

• League of Nations

Wright Brothers

• Invented airplane

• Kitty Hawk, NC

Guglielmo Marconi

• Developed the radio

David Sarnoff

• The Broadcast Industry

• NBC - Radio and TV

Georgia O'Keeffe

• Artist - Southwest and urban scenes

F Scott Fitzgerald

• Novelist - The Great Gatsby

• Roaring Twenties - 1920’s

John Steinbeck

• Novelist - The Grapes of Wrath

• Novel of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

Aaron Copland

• Composer of uniquely American music

George Gershwin

• Composer uniquely American music

Jacob Lawrence

• African American artist

• Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration

Langston Hughes

• African American poet

• Harlem Renaissance

Duke Ellington

• African American Jazz musician

• Harlem Renaissance

Louis Armstrong

• African American Jazz musician

Bessie Smith

• African American Blues singer

• Harlem Renaissance

Franklin D Roosevelt

• President - Great Depression and WWII

• Created the New Deal and Fireside Chats

• Led US to victory over the Axis

Eleanor Roosevelt

• Wife of FDR

• Worked for expanding women’s rights

Adolph Hitler

• Leader of Germany - Axis Power

• Holocaust

• WWII

Benito Mussolini

• Fascist leader of Italy - Axis Power

• Dictator

Hideki Tojo

• Military dictator of Japan WWII

Winston Churchill

• Prime Minister United Kingdom - WWII

• Battle of Britain – didn’t give in

• Gave the “Iron Curtain” phrase to Cold War

Joseph Stalin

• Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

• Ally in WWII

• Enemy in Cold War

Harry S. Truman

• US President at end of WWII

• Ordered Atomic Bomb on Japan

• Established the Marshall Plan

• Integrated the US Military in 1948

George C. Marshall

• Chief of Staff in US Army during WWII

• Secretary of State after WWII

• Developed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and stop communism from spreading.

Rosie the Riveter

• Symbol of women working during WWII in the defense plants

Rosa Parks

• Arrested in Montgomery, AL for not giving up her seat.

• Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, JR

• Leader Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Disobedience and Passive Resistance (non-violence)

Freedom Riders

• Civil Disobedience

• Passive resistance (non-violence)

• Broke Jim Crow Laws