Important People

Stephen Douglas

Illinois senator who proposed splitting the Nebraska territory into two territories (kansas and Nebraska)

Dredd Scott

A slave who claimed claimed that by living in a free state before being taken back into a slave state by his master made him a FREE MAN

Roger Taney

slaves WERE CONSIDERED PROPERTY ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION

John Brown

ABOLITIONIST

Lincoln

elected in 1860 and he frees the slaves

Jefferson Davis

first confederate president

General Robert E. Lee

-BEST GENERAL IN U.S.

-Leads confederate army

General stonewall Jackson

-fought in stonewall and ft Sumter

General George McClleland

Union Armies first General in the east (Richmond)

Ulysses S Grant

-leader of the union army in the west (Mississippi)

-eventually commander of all union armies

-president durning reconstruction (1869 to 1877)

-republican

Admiral Faragut

-Leader of the union navy

-Took ports of New Orleans

William Tecumseh Sherman

-Ullysses S Grant friend

-command of military in the Mississippi

-Destroyed the North

Clara Barton

-A union nurse who helped form the red cross

John Wilkes Booth

-killed Lincoln

Joseph Finnegan

-fought in the battle of olustee

-defeated 5,000 Union troops who were trying to kill the livestock and burn the crops.

Andrew Johnson

-Licolns vice president

-Racist

-Put on trial for DISOBEYING THE TENURE OF OFFICE ACT AND FIRING STANTON

-1865 to 1869

Edward Stanton

-Secretary of war

-friends with radical republicans

-fired by Andrew Johnson

Hayes

-republican president after Grant (1877 TO 1881)

-caused the compromise of 1877

SIOUX CHIEF SITTING BULL

-THE LEADER OF THE SIOUX NATION

- ATTACKED U.S. ARMY. with 2000 men

COLONEL GEORGE CUSTER

-goes against Sioux chief with 200 men

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

-Ran for president as a democrat

-gave speech on Bimetallism

-persecuted scopes

OLIVER HUDSON KELLY

starts granger movement

Mckinley

-1897 to 1901

-republican

-president during imperialism

George Pullman

-invented the first SLEEPING CAR FOR RICH PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILES ONLY.

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE

-MADE TRAIN TRAVEL SAFER BY INVENTING AIR BRAKES WHICH STOPPED ALL THE CARS ON THE TRAIN AT THE SAME TIME.

GUSTAVUS SWIFT

REFRIGERATED RAILROAD CARS

Henry Bessemer

• invents bessemer process in 1855

• British

SAMUEL MORSE

developed the first TELEGRAPH AND A CODE OF LONG AND SHORT ELECTRIC BURSTS CALLED MORSE CODE

CYRUS FIELD

HAD THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC CABLE TO CARRY TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE IN 1858

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

INVENTED THE FIRST TELEPHONE IN 1876

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

INVENTS ELECTRICITY

EDISON

- INVENTED THE FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT BULB IN 1879

-A.C CURRENT (DANGEROUS, MADE FIRES)

Nicola Tesla

-Edisons worker

-MAKES D.C (SAFER THAN A.C)

-TESLA ALSO DEVELOPED THE FIRST X– RAYS AND RADIO WAVES

JOSEPHINE COCHRAN

AA INVENTOR INVENTED FIRST AUTOMATIC DISWASHER

JOHN ALBERT BURR

AA inventor improved the FIRST ROTARY BLADE LAWNMOWER TO MAKE SURE THE BLADES WOULD NOT GET FILLED WITH GRASS.

GRANVILLE WOODS

AA INVENTOR DESIGNED THE FIRST TELEGRAPH BETWEEN RAILROAD CARS THAT COULD SEND SIGNALS AND MESSAGES BETWEEN STATIONS AND MOVING TRAINS

ELIJAH McCoy

AA INVENTED THE FIRST OIL DRIP CUP FOR AUTOMOBILE ENGINES AND TO LUBRICATE RAILROAD ENGINES AND STEAMSHIPS

 

SARAH GOODE

AA INVENTOR OF THE FOLD AWAY– BED THAT COULD BE TUCKEED UNDER DESKS EXCELLENT FOR SMALL APARTMENTS

MADAM C. J. WALKER

-INVENTED AND SOLD HAIRCARE PRODUCTS TO AA WOMEN

-FIRST AA FEMALE MILLIONAIRE

LEWIS LATIMER

CARBON FIBER LIGHT BULB FILAMENT

JAN ERNST MATZELIGER

AA GIVEN A PATENT TO INVENT A MACHINE THAT ATTACHED THE UPPER PART OF A LEATHER SHOE TO ITS SOLE

·      THIS INVENTION CUT THE PRICE OF SHOES IN HALF

GARRETT MORGAN

SAFETY MASK FOR FIREFIGHTERS

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

-AA farmer

-CROP DIVERSIFICATION/GROW PEANUTS FASTER

ROBBER BARONS

USED ILLEGAL BUSINESS TACTICS/BUILT MONOPLIES

CARNEGIE

steel

Rockefeller

-oil

-Standard oil company

JP Morgan

-richest banker in american history

-bought Edison and Carnegie company

FLAGLER

-ROCKEFELLER BUSINESS PARTNER IN STANDARD OIL

-‘THE FATHER OF MIAMI’

-BUILT THE FIRST RAILROAD FROM MIAMI TO KEY WEST WHERE HIS RICH FRIENDS WOULD COME TO VACATION PRIVATELY

Terrance Powderly

founded the knights of labor in 1869

Samuel Gompers

Starts American Federation in 1881

MARY HARRIS JONES

THE FIRST FEMALE STRIKE ORGANIZER IN U.S. HISTORY GOING ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARGUING FOR UNIONS AND WORKERS RIGHTS

Jane Addams

HULL HOUSES IN THE SLUMS OF CHICAGO/settlement houses

WILLIAM “BOSS” TWEED

THE MOST POWERFUL BOSS IN U.S. FROM  1868 – 1872

TAMMANY HALL

TWEEDS POLITICAL MACHINE

RIIS

SLUMS OF NYC

TARBELL

ROCKFELLER

SINCLAIR

“THE JUNGLE”/ CHICAGO MEAT PACKING

W.E.B. DUBOIS

- NAACP

-encouraged AA to fight for WW1

Robert M. LaFollette

– Progressive Governor of Wisconsin

- fought the railroads and their charging of high rates.

Napoleon Broward

-governor of Florida

-DRAINED EVERGLADES/ ENDED CHILD LABOR

Susan B. Anthony

Women’s right to Vote/started NWSA

FLORENCE Kelly

End Child Labor

CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE OF WOMEN’S VOTERS (IN CHARGE OF ALL PRESIDENTIL DEBATE’S)

ALICE PAUL

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE RIGHT NOW!!! (Went on a hunger strike)

Theodore Roosevelt

-1901 to 1909

-trust buster

-steward for the American people

-Bull Moose Party

-imperialism

President William Howard Taft

-1909 – 1913

-bigger trust buster

-lowered tariffs as a republican

-imperialism

Woodrow wilson

-1913 to 1921

-racist towards AA

-New Freedom

-imperialism/ end of imperialism

-MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY

-watchful waiting

-WW1

-made america commnunist

-no more wars

Queen Liliuokalani

-gave up Hawaii in 1893

-wanted to GIVE POWER BACK TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS, not WHITE PLANTATION OWNERS

Admiral Navy Alfred T. Mahan

-Head of the U.S. Navy

-“The key to world power is overseas colonies, naval bases all over the world, and a large powerful navy.”

Rudyard Kipling

-THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN (1889)

William Seward

-Sewards Folly (Bought Alaska)

King Kalakau

-forced by rich white businessmen to change Hawaii’s Constitution to limit voting rights to WEALTHY WHITE LANDOWNERS ONLY

Sanford B. Dole

-first white president of Hawaii.

Jose Marti

-a Cuban revolutionary forced out of Cuba by Spain living in NY.

-declared Cuban independence and returned to Cuba where he was shot and killed by the Spanish army.

General Valeriano (Weyler)

1896 - General that led the soanish army in cuba

-captured the ENTIRE FARMING POPULATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN CUBA

-took 300,000 prisoners and put them in barbed wire concentration camps and THOUSANDS died from starvation, diseases, and torture.

Pulitzer/Hearst

-control newspapers

-Prints zimmerman telegram (Hearst)

Enrique DeLome

-Spanish diplomat

-called the American president SOFT AND WEAK.

-Delome letter

Admiral George Dewey

-US naval commander

-attacked the Spanish in Manila Bay and took over the Philippines and destroyed the Spanish fleet.

Theodore Roosevelt (before his presidency)

-assistant secretary of navy

-started the ROUGHRIDERS

Emilio Aguinaldo

-Filipino rebel leader

-begins a rebellion against the U.S. AFTER REFUSING U.S. ANNEXATION

John Hay

-Secretary of State THAT WANTED WANTED ALL CHINESE PORTS TO REMAIN OPEN AND FOR CHINA for China to remain INDEPENDENT

Commodore Matthew Perry

-In 1852 entered Tokyo harbor with 32 U.S. BATTLESHIPS

-He opened up Isolationist Japan to trade with the Western world.

-TAKES OVER JAPAN 

Theodore Roosevelt (During his presidency)

-continued the policy of Imperialism

-build the Panama Canal across the country of Panama

-BIG STICK POLICIES

President Taft

-1909 to 1913

-DOLLAR DIPLOMACY

Pancho Villa

-Mexican rebel leader was incredibly angry because he thought the new government WOULD NOT HELP THE MEXICAN PEASANTS

-his troops kill American workers in Mexico

Henry Plant

built railroad lines, steamship line and luxury hotels in Tampa

ARCHDUKE FERDINAND

in 1914 SHOT AND KILLED BY GAVRILLO PRINCIP SERBIAN TERRORIST BEGINNING WWI

GAVRILLO PRINCIP

SERBIAN TERRORIST that shot archduke ferdinand

Booker T washington

-against AA fighting ww1

HENRY JOHNSON AND NEEDHAM ROBERTS

AA soldiers RECEIVED THE FRENCH MEDAL OF HONOR FOR HEROISM IN COMBAT

General John Pershing

-led the American Expeditionary Force (the U.S. Army) during ww1

-

Eddie Rickenbacker

top American pilot fought in 34 AIR BATTLES AND SHOT DOWN 26 ENEMY PLANES

Alvin York

-a CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR someone who would not kill because of religious beliefs.

-He agreed to fight after his best friend was killed and killed 26 Germans by himself in one battle.

  George Creel

-a muckraking journalist was put in charge of the COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION

-SPREAD ABOUT GERMANS KILLING WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EUROPE (PROPAGANDA)

Charles Schenck

-a Socialist that was arrested in 1917 for violating the Espionage & Sedition Act

-a college professor at Elon College who gave out pamphlets advising young men they should RESIST THE DRAFT and not go to war but go to prison.

Georges Clemenceau

-President of france during ww1

-punish germany

David Lloyd George

-president of england during ww1

-punish germany

Henry Cabot Lodge

-Republican Senator

-was against the U.S. joining the League of Nations

Vladimir Lenin

led the Bolsheviks in revolution

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

-leaders of the justice department'

-set up FBI TO ARREST ANY COMMUNISTS/ANARCHISTS

-Palmer raids