Transcript The Grapes of Wrath

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
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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
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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
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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