Important People From Unit 1-5

Invented the telephone - opened up communication across a distance

Alexander Graham Bell

Supported the US having a strong navy and overseas expansion

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Won the Medal of Honor in World War 1 in the Battle of Argonne Forest (German retreat)

Alvin York

Had monopoly on the steel industry; was a philanthropist; paid workers low wages; "build ladders upon which the aspiring can rise"

Andrew Carnegie

Wanted African Americans to use vocational skills

Booker T. Washington

First transatlantic flight solo across Atlantic Ocean (33 hours)

Charles Lindbergh

Argued on Scopes "Monkey" Trial; modernism v. traditionalism (old vs new)

Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan

President who created the New Deal; fireside chats; served four terms from 1933-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Used assembly line to mass manufacture Model T (most affordable car)

Henry Ford

"Hooverville's;" laissez faire president: blamed for the Great Depression (lost to FDR)

Herbert Hoover

Wanted to "Share the Wealth"

Huey Long

Monopoly on banking during the Gilded Age

J.P. Morgan

Transformed inexperienced soldiers to experienced WW1

John J. Pershing

Had monopoly over the oil industry; Robber baron

John Rockefeller

Started the "Back to Africa" movement - wanted African Americans to return to Africa "a person without their background is like a tree without roots"

Marcus Garvey

Italian immigrants convicted of murder; Red Scare 1920's; killed because of Nativist feelings

Sacco and Vanzetti

Annexed Hawaii during the Spanish American War; limited Hawaiian natives rights

Sanford B. Dole

President; trust buster; Rough Riders; wanted competition; Big Stick Diplomacy and construction of the Panama Canal

Theodore Roosevelt

Invented the lightbulb; businesses extend working hours and manufacturing was more efficient

Thomas Edison

Famous muckraker; wrote The Jungle; exposed meatpacking industry in major cities

Upton Sinclair

Formed the NAACP; early civil rights group; wanted change immediately

W.E.B. DuBois

Wanted to "Return to Normalcy" after turmoil of War 1; focus on domestic issues; involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal

Warren G. Harding

Leader of NYC corrupt Tammany Hall; got votes from immigrants

William "Boss" Tweed

Wrote the Fourteen Points at end of World War 1 (1918); National Park Service

Woodrow Wilson