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SOL
Key People to Know
Abraham Lincoln
• Reconstruction
plan called for
reconciliation
• Preservation of
Union was more
important than
punishing South
Robert E. Lee
• Urged Southerners
to reconcile and
unite as
Americans
• Became president
of Washington
College
Frederick Douglass
• Fought for
amendments
that guaranteed
voting rights
• Voice for human
rights for all
Chief Joseph
• Forced relocation
from traditional
lands to
reservations
• “I Will Fight No
More Forever”
Booker T. Washington
• Believed equality
could be achieved
through vocational
education (job
training)
• Accepted social
segregation
W.E.B Dubois
• Believed in full
political, civil and
social rights for
African
Americans
• Helped found
NAACP
Thomas Edison
• Lighting and
mechanical uses
of electricity
• Inventor of
movie projector
Alexander Graham Bell
• Telephone
services
• Improved
Communications
Jane Addams
• Founded Hull
House
(settlement
house)
• Helped
immigrants
John D. Rockefeller
• Captain of
Industry - Oil
• Standard Oil
Company
Andrew Carnegie
• Captain of
Industry - Steel
• Pittsburgh, PA
Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Captain of
Industry
• Railroads and
Shipping
Susan B. Anthony
• Worked for
woman’s suffrage
(right to vote)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Worked for
woman’s suffrage
(right to vote)
Woodrow Wilson
• President during
WWI
• Prepared a peace
plan – Fourteen
Points (included
League of
Nations)
Henry Ford
• Assembly Line
• Rise of
mechanization
• Model T
• Improved
Transportation
Wright Brothers
• Inventors of the
Airplane
• First flight - Kitty
Hawk, North
Carolina
Guglielmo Marconi
• Developed the
Radio
David Sarnoff
• Development of
the broadcast
industry
Georgia O’Keefe
• Artist, painter
• Southwest
scenes and urban
scenes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Novelist
• Wrote about Jazz
Age (1920s)
John Steinbeck
• Novelist
• Wrote about
poor migrant
workers (1930s)
Aaron Copland
• Composer
• Wrote uniquely
American music
George Gershwin
• Composer
• Wrote uniquely
American music
Jacob Lawrence
• African American
painter
• Harlem
Renaissance
• Great Migration
Langston Hughes
• Poet
• Harlem
Renaissance
• Combined
African and
American cultural
roots
Duke Ellington
• Jazz Composer
• Harlem
Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
• Jazz Composer
• Harlem
Renaissance
• Known for
Trumpet playing
Bessie Smith
• Blues Singer
• Harlem
Renaissance
Franklin D. Roosevelt
• President
• Developed the
New Deal to help
people during
the Great
Depression
• WWII
Adolf Hitler
• Fascist Dictator
of Germany
• Responsible for
the Holocaust
• Axis Power
Benito Mussolini
• Fascist Dictator
of Italy
• Axis power
Hideki Tojo
• Fascist Dictator
of Japan
• Axis Power
• Attacked Pearl
Harbor
Joseph Stalin
• Dictator of Soviet
Union
• Became part of
Allies after Hitler
invaded the
Soviet Union
Winston Churchill
• Prime Minister of
Great Britain
• Allies
Harry S. Truman
• President
• Dropped atomic
bombs on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki ending
WWII
Rosie the Riveter
• Symbol of
working women
during WWII
George C. Marshall
• Marshall Plan
• Give money to
Europe to rebuild
after WWII
• Used to prevent
spread of
Communism
Eleanor Roosevelt
• Expanded Civil
Rights for women
and minorities
• U.S. delegate to
United Nations
Martin Luther King Jr.
• Favored passive
Resistance against
segregated
facilities.
• March on
Washington 1963
• “I Have A Dream”
speech
Rosa Parks
• Refused to give up
seat to white
passenger
• Action led to
Montgomery Bus
boycott for a year
• Ended Segregation
on Buses
Charles Drew
• Blood plasma
• African American
physician and
surgeon
• Helped develop
blood banks for
WWII
J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Physics
• Worked on
Manhattan Project
to develop atomic
bomb for WWII
• Early leader in
theoretical physics
Frank Lloyd Wright
• Greatest American
architect
• Promoted organic
architecture
(integration of
surrounding and
furnishings)
Martha Graham
• Choreographer
• Pioneer of modern
dance
Henry Louis Gates
• African American
scholar, writer,
educator, historian
• Emphasis on
African American
culture
Maya Angelou
• Literature
• African American
poet,
autobiographer
• Worked with
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Bill Gates
• Computer
technology
entrepreneur
(Microsoft)
• Philanthropist
Ray Kroc
• Franchising
• Partnered with
McDonald
brothers and
eventually bought
the rights to their
restaurant