Important Individuals

Question 1

An American financier who served as third and last president of the Second Bank of the U.S.; made it the first effective central bank in U.S. history; enemies with Jackson who later eliminated the Second Bank of the U.S.

Answer 1

Nicholas Biddle

Question 2

An American reformer of education often called the “Father of the Common School Movement;” movement devoted to creating more equitable public school system with quality teachers and a nonsectarian approach to education

Answer 2

Horace Mann

Question 3

North Carolinian who was a writer, abolitionist, and white supremacist; Wrote book “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it” where he attacked slavery because it victimized nonslaveholding whites and was incompatible with economic progress as seen by the North’s progression vs South slow evolution

Answer 3

Hinton R. Helper

Question 4

A militant American abolitionist who believed slavery was a sin against God and became a martyr to the antislavery movement after his raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA

Answer 4

John Brown

Question 5

One of the most popular 19th century American authors and arguably most socially influential America writer of his generation; wrote YA novels about impoverished boys and “rags-to-riches” by being honest, cheerful, perseverance and hard work; wrote Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom or Street Life in NY with the Bootblacks

Answer 5

Horatio Alger

Question 6

American architect, designer and writer, and known as the creator and expounder of “organic architecture;” his “prairie style” became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the U.S.

Answer 6

Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 7

American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 and co-founder of Hull House in Chicago (one of the first social settlements in North America)

Answer 7

Jane Addams

Question 8

American educator and reformer, the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and was the most influential spokesman for Black Americans between 1895-1915

Answer 8

Booker T. Washington