Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Final Exam Key Peopl
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Ford | an American manufacturer that found a system to mass-produce cars, making the automobile available to millions |
| Sitting Bull | Southern Plains Native American that led attacks to keep whites out |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democrat that won Populist support in the election of 1896, but lost to William McKinley |
| Thomas Edison | an inventor that produced the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and other useful devices with other scientists, and also created the nation's first electrical powerplant |
| Alexander Graham Bell | person who invented the telephone, which could carry the human voice |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | inventors of the first airplane |
| Andrew Carnegie | a Scottish immigrant that became a giant in big business by creating a monopoly in the steel industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | a business giant that ended competition in the oil industry by forming the Standard Oil Trust |
| Samuel Gompers | leader of the AFL, or American Federation of Labor, that believed in using skilled workers to win improvements through collective bargaining |
| Jane Addams | a reformer that opened Hull House, a settlement house in the slums of Chicago |
| Mark Twain | an author by the pen name of Samuel Clemens that captured the speech patterns of southerners living along the Mississippi River |
| Joseph Pulitzer | a Hungarian immigrant that created the first modern, mass-circulation newspaper |
| Theodore Roosevelt | vice president of William McKinley that became a strong supporter of Progressive goals, including the end of big business, organized labor, and conservation |
| William Howard Taft | Roosevelt's secretary of war that became president, who supported Progressive causes, but later lost Progressive support |
| Woodrow Wilson | a Democratic Progressive President that created the New Freedom to ensure fair business competition |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | a leader of the suffrage movement that tried to win suffrage state by state |
| Alice Paul | a suffragist that met with Woodrow Wilson to request to allow women to vote |
| Frances Willard | president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union that tried to ban the sale of liquor |
| Booker T. Washington | African American educator that believed that African Americans should seek to move up gradually in society |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | African American scholar that believed to fight segregation instead of submitting to it |
| Jeannette Rankin | first woman elected to Congress that voted against Wilson's war resolution |
| Herbert Hoover | head of the Food Administration that directed relief efforts in Belgium and urged people to conserve valuable food resources |
| Eugene V. Debs | a labor leader that was jailed in 1918 for urging workers not to support the war effort |
| John J. Pershing | commander of the American Expeditionary Force (as known in Europe) that insisted that American soldiers would fight units under American command during WWI |
| Vladmir Lenin | leader of the Bolsheviks that pulled Russia out of the war, seized the government, and set Russia on the road to Communism |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | a Republican Senator that objected that the United States join the League of Nations |
| Warren Harding | Republican nominee for President that promised a return to "normalcy" |
| Calvin Coolidge | Vice President of Warren Harding that helped restore the public's trust in government |
| Charles Lindbergh | "Lucky Lindy" first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| Sinclair Lewis | an author who reacted against what he saw as the hypocrises of middle-class culture, writing the story Babbitt to criticize American society |
| Langston Hughes | poet who was famous for his moving expressions of racial pride |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic president that introduced a "New Deal" for the American people and worked to help people recover from the Great Depression |
| Huey Long | a Democratic senator that argued that the government could end the Depression immediately by taxing the wealthy and giving money to the poor |
| Francis Townsend | a doctor that called for a system of government pensions for retired Americans |
| Charles Coughlin | a Catholic priest that distrusted Roosevelt's policies on banking and money |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife who helped work for him and championed women's rights |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | an educator who became the top-ranking African American in the government and a member of the Black Cabinet |
| Marian Anderson | an African American singer who sang on the steps of Lincoln Memorial Easter Sunday |
| John Collier | Commissioner of Indian Affairs who created the Indian New Deal for Native Americans |
| John Steinbeck | writer that captured the miseries of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression |
| Frances Perkins | secretary of labor and the first woman to serve in the Cabinet that backed labor reforms |
| John L. Lewis | head of the United mine workers that formed the Congress of Industrial Organization consisting of many other labor unions |
| Josef Stalin | sole dictator of Soviet Union that turned it into a totalitarian state |
| Benito Mussolini | prime minister (dictator) of Italy that turned it into the world's first Fascist state |
| Adolf Hitler | extreme nationalist and dictator of Germany that turned it into a totalitarian state |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War II |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general that fought in North Africa |
| Douglas MacArthur | general that commanded a Filipino-American force, but withdrew his forces onto the Bataan peninsula |
| A. Phillip Randolph | union leader that threatened a mass protest unless Roosevelt moved to end discrimination in the armed forces |
| Harry S Truman | vice president to FDR that became president after his sudden death and planned the invasion of Japan |
Created by:
14jfish
Popular U.S. History sets