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STAAR US Hist People

STAAR US History Powerful People

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George Washington Commander in Chief of Continental Army, First President
Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of Independence, Anti-Federalist, Third President
James Madison Father of the Constitution, 4th President
Theodore Roosevelt Leader of the Rough Riders, Offered the Square Deal, Third Party Progressive, Conservationist
Susan B. Anthony Progressive Reformer, Leader of Women's Suffrage Movement
Jane Addams Advocate of Settlement Houses, Founded Hull House in Chicago
Upton Sinclair Muckraker, author of The Jungle
Jacob Riis Muckraker, Photographer, published How the Other Half Lives
Maria Harris "Mother" Jones Progressive Reformer, Advocate for children and miners
Ida Tarbell Progressive Reformer, Against Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Ida B. Wells Progressive Reformer, Anti-lynching campaigns
Samuel Gompers Founder of the American Federation of Labor, Advocated for Secretary of Labor position
Woodrow Wilson Democratic Progressive President during WWI, Author of Fourteen Points
W.E.B. du Bois Founder of NAACP, Wanted African Americans to demand rights
Booker T. Washington Taught that economic success for African Americans would take time, and that subordination to whites was a necessary evil until African Americans could prove they were worthy
Clarence Darrow Defense attorney (pro evolution) for Scopes trial, founded ACLU
William Jennings Bryan Third Party Populist/Democrat for President, Prosecuting attorney (pro creation) for Scopes trial
Franklin D. Roosevelt 4-term President, President during Great Depression and WWII, helped economy with New Deal programs
Harry S. Truman President at the end of WWII, ordered atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, started Truman Doctrine to contain communism
Dwight D. Eisenhower General and Allied commander during WWII and D-day (Normandy invasion), President during Cold War and start of Space Race
John F. Kennedy President during Space Race, Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis(against Castro and communists)
Lyndon Johnson President after JFK assassination, Vietnam War escalation, Civil Rights movement, War on Poverty
Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led passive resistance/non-violent protests modeled after Gandhi's approach
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