APUSH Period 6 (1865-1898): Review (Key People)

Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Bessemer

William Jennings Bryan

Andrew Carnegie

Grover Cleveland

Jacob Coxey

George Armstrong Custer

Took the order of William Tecumseh Sherman and assaulted a Cheyenne village, killing more than one-hundred inhabitants in November of 1868

Eugene V. Debs

W. E. B. Du Bois

Thomas Alva Edison

Geronimo

Participated in pageants and Wild West shows but refused to disavow his heritage

Samuel Gompers

Jay Gould

Henry Grady

Editor of The Atlanta Constitution and called for a “New South” with an economy based on textile mills, factories, and mining

Chief Joseph

In 1877, he led a small group of Nez Percé opposed to the treaty (from after the Sand Creek massacre) out of the Pacific Northwest, directing his people in a march of 1,400 miles over mountains into Montana and into Wyoming as federal troops pursued them

William McKinley

J. P. Morgan

Terence V. Powderly

George Pullman

Jacob Riis

John D. Rockefeller

William Tecumseh Sherman

Commander of the military forces against the American Indians, ordered the army to wage a war of annihilation

Sitting Bull

Fiercely resisted U.S. expansion, famously leading his people to victory against Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) and opposing assimilation policies

Frederick W. Taylor

Frederick Jackson Turner

Boss Tweed