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SOL Review People
A. Bruce History 7 SOL People Review
Question | Answer |
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Thomas Edison | Lighting and mechanical uses of electricity |
Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone services |
Jane Addams | Founded Hull House – Efforts to solve immigration problems |
Chief Joseph | Indian policies and war. "I will fight no more forever". |
Booker T. Washington | Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted separate but equal. |
W.E.B. DuBois | Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. |
John D. Rockefeller | Captain of Industry - Oil |
Captain of Industry - Oil | Captain of Industry - Steel |
Henry Ford | Captain of Industry – Automobile, use of the assembly line. |
Susan B. Anthony | Worked for women’s suffrage |
Woodrow Wilson | (President) Prepared a peace plan that called for the formation of the League of Nations at the end of WWI, a peace keeping organization. |
Guglielmo Marconi | Played a role in the development of the radio. |
Wright Brothers | Inventors of the airplane. |
David Sarnoff | Played a role in the development of the radio broadcast industry. |
Georgia O'Keefe | An artist known for urban scenes and, later, paintings of the southwest. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Novelist who wrote about the jazz age of the 1920’s. |
John Steinbeck | A novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930’s. |
Aaron Copland | Composer who wrote uniquely American music. |
George Gershwin | Composer who wrote uniquely American music. |
Jacob Lawrence | African American painter during the Harlem Renaissance who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration North. |
Langston Hughes | Poet during the Harlem Renaissance who combined the experiences of African American cultural roots. |
Duke Ellington | African American jazz composer during the Harlem Renaissance. |
Louis Armstrong | African American jazz composer during the Harlem Renaissance. |
Bessie Smith | African American blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Used government programs to help the nation recover from the Great Depression (New Deal). Allied Leader during WWII. |
Adolf Hitler | Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Germany) |
Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Italy) |
Hideki Tojo | Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Japan) |
Harry S. Truman | (United States) Allied Leader after FDR. |
Winston Churchill | (Great Britain) Allied Leader |
Joseph Stalin | (Soviet Union) Allied Leader |
Rosie the Riveter | Symbol of thousands of American women who took jobs in defense plants during WWII. |
George C Marshall | Instituted plan to rebuild Europe (the Marshall Plan), which provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism. |
Eleanor Roosevelt | Played a role in expanding women’s rights. |
Martin Luther King Jr. | Passive resistance against segregated facilities; “I have a dream…” Speech. |
Rosa Parks | Montgomery bus boycott |
Charles Drew | Representative Citizen in Science for medicine and plasma. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | Representative Citizen in Science for Physics, Manhatten Project team. |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Representative Citizen in Culture for Architecture. |
Martha Graham | Representative Citizen in Culture for dance. |
Henry Louis Gates | Representative Citizen in Academics for history. |
Maya Angelou | Representative Citizen in Academics for Literature. |
Bill Gates | Representative Citizen in Economics for computer technology and Microsoft. |
Ray Kroc | Representative Citizen in Economics for franchising, McDonalds. |