Final People

Question 1

Ulysess S Grant

Answer 1

Republican and Civil war Here
-honest but politically inexperienced

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 2

investor
-invested in steel industries
introduced tecniques
-Bessemer process
–>Mass production at low cost

Question 3

J.D. Rockefeller

Answer 3

founder of standard oil
-used horizontal integration
–> created a near monopoly

Question 4

J.P. Morgan

Answer 4

banker
-helped finance major industries
his involvement was in steel and railroad

Question 5

Henry Grady

Answer 5

Editor of the Atlantic Constitution

Believed that diversification and industrialization was essential to solving the destroyed economy of the south

Question 6

Booker T. Washington

Answer 6

Leader in the Af. American Community
-born a slave
-embraced self help for Af. Am.
-supported education rights
–> started the tuskegee institute

Gave a speech, “The Atlanta Compromise”
-delivered at the Atlant cotton exposition
-suggested Af. American work and start at the bottom and work their way to achieving civil rights

Question 7

Ida B. Wells

Answer 7

Af American female journalist, educator, and activist
-strongly influenced state law in IL
-helped to establish the anti-lynching laws in 1905

Question 8

W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 8

scholar, writer, civil rights activist
-first af. american to recieve a doctoral degree

Dif. from Washington
-felt that civil rights should be center
-believed in agitation to gain those rights

Formed NAACP

Question 9

Buffalo Bill Cody

Answer 9

figure created by “Buffalo Bill Wild West Show”
-helped in the devlopment of the myth of the west

Question 10

William “Boss” Tweed

Answer 10

leader of Tammany Hall in NY
-promised voted for democratic party
–>convicted for taking bribes

Question 11

Herbers Spencer

Answer 11

Developed the idea of Social Darwinism

Question 12

William McKinley

Answer 12

Won the elction of 1900
His campaign promise:
-supporter of the gold standard
–>opposed bimetalism
-promised economic stability and bortective tarrifs to boost American Industry

Question 13

Emilio Aguinaldo

Answer 13

led the phillipino resistance during the Spanish American War

Question 14

Jane Addams

Answer 14

founder of Hull House in Chicago

Question 15

Main women reformers

Answer 15

Jane Addams
Alice Paul
Florence Kelly

Question 16

Alice Paul

Answer 16

Suffragist who founded the NWP
-to advocate for womens suffrage through more militant tactics like protests and hunger strikes

Question 17

Francisco Pancho Villa

Answer 17

Mexican revolutionary leader who attacked U.S. towns and raided columbus New Mexico in 1916
-provoked U.S. intervention

Question 18

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 18

heir to the throne of Austria Hungary
-assasinated by Gavrillo Princip

Question 19

Robert Prager

Answer 19

German immigrantlynched by mob in the US during WW1 due to anti german sentiment

Question 20

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 20

Suffered a stroke near the end of his presidency and never regained strength

Question 21

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 21

italian immigrants
-stole $16,000 and were executed

Question 22

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 22

flew solo transatlantic fligth non-stop
-NY—> Paris in 33 1/2 hours
-Flew the “Spirit of St.Louis”

Question 23

Eleanore Roosevelt

Answer 23

Most openly involved First Lady
-activist for poor and Af. Americans

Question 24

Benito Mussolini

Answer 24

Fascist Leader of Italy

Question 25

Adolf Hitler

Answer 25

Wrote Mein Kampf Nazi Germany Ruler -initiated WW2 by invading poland Responsible for the holocaust

Question 26

Joseph Stalin

Answer 26

Communist leader of Soviet Union -iron fist -purges and famine

Question 27

Hideki Tojo

Answer 27

Prime minster of Japan -authorized the attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 28

Alger Hiss

Answer 28

Soviet spy convicted of perjury -got 5 years

Question 29

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg

Answer 29

accused of passing on info of the atomic bomb to Soviet Union -sentenced to execution

Question 30

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Answer 30

Pediatrician -common sense book of Baby and Child Care -encouraged parents to be more nurturing

Question 31

Rosa Parks

Answer 31

Civil Rights activist -refused to give up her bus seat

Question 32

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 32

young pastor who led the montgomery improvement association

Question 33

Emmett Till

Answer 33

chicago 14 year old boy lynched after allegedly whistling at a white woman

Question 34

Fulgencio Batista

Answer 34

Corrupt authoritarian leader backed by US -leader before being overthrown by Fidel Castro

Question 35

Fidel Castro

Answer 35

led teh cuban revolution -after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista

Question 36

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 36

vietnamese revolutionary leader -became president of North Vietnam led the Viet Minh independence movement against french colonial Rule -fought against South Vietnam and US during the Vietnam war

Question 37

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 37

harsh but ineffective leader -first president of South Vietnam regime was marked by authoritarianism and supression of opposition -led to internal unrest

Question 38

Thich Quang Duc

Answer 38

buddhist monk who commited a ritualistic suicide

Question 39

Henry Kissinger

Answer 39

Secretary of state -went to china in 1971 to negotiate Paris Peace Accord -->led to ceasefire and US withdrawal

Question 40

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 40

Sworn in as president after JFk assassination

Question 41

Medgar Evers

Answer 41

Civil rights activist and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi -assasinated in 1963 by a white supremacist

Question 42

Malcolm X

Answer 42

civil rights leader -initially supported black nationalism and separation from white society -later changed views to valuing human rights and unity

Question 43

Rachel Carson

Answer 43

environmentalist who rote silent Spring -highlighted the dangers of pesticides -led to a nationwide environmental movement

Question 44

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 44

final leader of the Soviet Union -introduced many reform --> openess and restructuring -eased cold war tensions w/ the west

Question 45

George Bush

Answer 45

Broke his campaign promise of no tax increase -read my lips no new taxes