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
