American People

Joseph Glidden

American Farmer

Patented Barbed Wire

Ended open ranged ranching

Cyrus McCormick

Credited as the Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President of the United States

Led efforts to remove the vestiges of Confederate Nationalism

Defeated the KKK

Sitting Bull

Worked as a performer with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

Feared the use of his influence would support the Ghost Dances

Indian service agents ordered his arrest

George Armstrong Custer

Dispatched to the West in the American Indian Wars

Appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment

Crazy Horse

Lakota war leader of the Oglala band of Sioux

George Washington Carver

Reputation based on research into (and promotion of) alternative crops

Chief Joseph

Leader of a band of the Nez Perce

Jesse James

Infamous “wild west“ gang leader and outlaw, Confederate Guerilla during the Civil War

“Buffalo Bill“ Cody

His shows toured the Easter U.S. and Europe

Featuring “Cowboy and Indian” battles

Cornelius Vanderbilt

American business man and Philanthropist

“Vanderbilt University“

Andrew Carnegie

Led the Expansion of American Steel Industry

The “Gospel of Wealth“ in 1889

John D. Rockefeller

Founder of Standard Oil Company

J.P. Morgan

Leading Financier of  the Progressive Era

Henry Ford

Founder of Ford Motor Company

Mark Twain

American Author

Coined the term “Gilded Age”

Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Alexander Graham Bell

Credited with inventing the first telephone

Thomas Edison

Developed the phonograph, Motion picture camera, and the long-lasting practical light bulb

“The Wizard of Menlo Park“

William Jennings Bryan

Advocate of Bimetallism

Delivered “Cross of Gold Speech“

Led attacks on Darwinism and Evolution

William McKinley

Led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War

Raised protective tariffs to promote American Industry

Samuel Gompers

Founded the American Federation of Labor

Promoted collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages for workers

Eugene Debs

American Union Leader

A founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies)World

Candidate of the Socialist Party of America for president five times

William Tweed

Most notable for being the “Boss“ of Tammany Hall

Upton Sinclair

Famous for the classic Muckraking novel “The Jungle“ in 1906

Exposed Meat Packing Industry

Ida Tarbell

A “muckracker“ who pioneered investigative journalism

1904 book The History of The Standard Oil Company

Jane Adams

Founded the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois

Provided education, food, medical care, and employment training to the poor

Robert LaFollette

Achieved the most significant progressive state government reform in America known as the “Wisconsin Idea“

Booker T. Washington

Wanted equality for work education

W.E.B DuBois

Wanted immediate full civil rights and increased political representation

John Muir

Founder of the conservation movement

“Father of National Parks“

Created parks such as Yosemite, Mt. Rainier, and the Grand Canyon

Theodore Roosevelt

Led the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War

Famous for his actions during the Battle of San Juan Hill

Took the presidency after William McKinley’s assassination

William Howard Taft

10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Elected president in 1908

Defeated by Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election

William Randolph Hearst

Owned NY Journal

Completely against NY world

Led to “yellow journalism“

Susan B. Anthony

Leader of early women’s suffrage movement (1870’s)

Alice Paul

Leader of movement in 1920s

Hunger strikes in prison

Carrie Nation

Radical Member of the temperance movement

Opposed alcohol before Prohibition

Attacks establishments with a hatchet

Hellen Keller

Deaf and Blind

Learned how to read and write

A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU)

Woodrow Wilson

Re-elected in 1916, using the quote “he kept us out of war“

The second term was dominated by America's joining World War I

Issued principles of peace: “The Fourteen Points“

Went to Paris to promote the formation of a League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles

John “BlackJack” Pershing

United States General of World War One

American Expedition Forces

Margaret Sanger

Popularized birth control

Opened the first birth control clinic in the United States