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Title: Famous Americans


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Famous Americans
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Politicians
  • Thomas Paine-Wrote Common Sense which called for
    independence from Britain

3
Alexander Hamilton
  • Federalist
  • Sec. of Treasury-Bank of U.S.

4
John Marshall
  • Chief Justice of Supreme Court decisions helped
    increase power of federal govt
  • established judicial review

5
Douglas MacArthur
  • Led U.S. occupation of Japan after WWII
  • Led UN troops during Korean War
  • dismissed by Pres. Truman for disagreeing with
    him

6
Joseph McCarthy
  • Senator who led anti-communist movement
  • claimed there were communists in State Dept. and
    U.S. Army

7
Thurgood Marshall
  • Head lawyer for NAACP during Brown v. Board of Ed
  • first African-American Supreme Court justice

8
Sandra Day OConnor
  • 1st female Supreme Court Justice

9
Businessmen
  • Henry Ford
  • automobile manufacturer
  • used assembly line and interchangeable parts
  • made Model T affordable

10
John Rockefeller
  • industrialist who had monopoly in oil industry
    Standard Oil Company
  • philanthropist

11
Andrew Carnegie
  • industrialist who had monopoly in steel industry
    Carnegie Steel
  • philanthropist
  • defended Social Darwinism

12
Bill Gates
  • Businessman
  • software developer Microsoft
  • philanthropist

13
Reformers
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Abolitionist
  • published anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

14
Frederick Douglas
  • Abolitionist
  • former slave
  • published The North Star
  • also spoke for womens rights

15
Harriet Tubman
  • Abolitionist
  • helped slaves escape by the Underground Railroad

16
Booker T Washington
  • African American educator and scientist
  • founded Tuskegee Institute
  • felt Blacks should earn equality through
    education and hard work

17
WEB Du Bois
  • African American civil rights leader
  • founder of NAACP
  • opposed Booker T Washingtons viewpoint
  • influenced Harlem Renaissance by stressing pride
    in heritage

18
Jane Addams
  • Founder of Hull House in Chicago settlement
    house for immigrants
  • supported womens rights
  • won Nobel Peace Prize

19
Jacob Riis
  • Muckraker
  • exposed poor conditions of slums and tenements
  • wrote How the Other Half Lives

20
Dorothea Dix
  • social reformer
  • worked for improved treatment of mentally ill

21
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Suffragette
  • organized the Seneca Falls Convention
  • president of the National Woman Suffrage
    Association

22
Susan B Anthony
  • Suffragette
  • Leader of womens rights movement

23
Samuel Gompers
  • Labor leader
  • organizer of the American Federation of Labor
    skilled labor union

24
Rosa Parks
  • Activist
  • refusal to give up bus seat lead to 1955
    Montgomery Bus Boycott- beginning of civil rights
    movement

25
Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Civil Rights leader
  • use of civil disobedience and non-violence
  • founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  • I Have a Dream speech
  • won Nobel Peace Prize
  • assassinated in 1968

26
Malcolm X
  • Leader of Black Power movement
  • advocated black separatism and use of violence if
    necessary
  • assassinated in 1965

27
Cesar Chavez
  • Latino labor leader
  • migrant farm worker
  • formed United Farm Workers Union
  • organized grape boycott

28
Rachel Carson
  • Biologist wrote book Silent Spring attacking use
    of pesticides
  • stimulated environmental movement

29
Betty Friedan
  • Womens rights activist
  • wrote Feminine Mystique (1963) which encouraged
    women to work outside the home
  • founded National Organization of Women (1966)

30
Jesse Jackson
  • African American civil rights activist
  • ran for president
  • served as diplomat to negotiate with foreign
    leaders

31
Writers and Artists
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin which increased moral
    opposition to slavery

32
Upton Sinclair
  • Muckraker
  • journalist
  • wrote The Jungle which led to Meat Inspection
    Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act

33
Langston Hughes
  • African American author and poet
  • leading figure during Harlem Renaissance

34
Duke Ellington
  • Jazz and Blues artist during Harlem Renaissance
  • help popularize American music worldwide

35
Miscellaneous
  • Sacco and Vanzetti
  • Italian immigrants anarchists
  • executed for armed robbery and murder during the
    Red Scare of the 1920s
  • cleared in 1977

36
Eleanor Roosevelt
  • First lady
  • political activist for rights of African
    Americans and women
  • helped create UN Declaration on Human Rights and
    UN commission on Human Rights

37
Jackie Robinson
  • Professional baseball player
  • first African American to play for major league
    baseball Brooklyn Dodgers
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