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J.P Morgan
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| J.P. Morgan | was an American financier and industrial organizer. He reorganized several major railroads and financed industrial consolidations that formed the United States Steel, International Harvester, and General Electric corporations. |
| John Muir | was a Scottish-born American naturalist, writer, and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park, which are located in California. |
| Isaac Murphy | was an American jockey who was the first to be elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.—racing records show 34.5 percent, while Murphy claimed 44 percent—has been equaled in American horse racing. |
| Thomas Nast | was an American cartoonist, best known for his attack on the political machine of William M. Tweed in New York City in the 1870s. |
| Richard Olney | was the U.S. secretary of state (1895–97) who asserted, under the Monroe Doctrine, the right of the United States to intervene in any international disputes within the Western Hemisphere. |
| Fredrick Law Olmsted | as an American landscape architect who designed a succession of outstanding public parks, beginning with Central Park in New York City. |
| Ely Parker | Grant named Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian who had served with him as a staff officer, commissioner of Indian affairs |
| Albert and Lucy Parsons | were prominent 19th century American labor organizers, radicals, and anarchists who fought for workers' rights and racial justice |
| Terence V. Powderly | was an American labor leader and politician who led the Knights of Labor (KOL) from 1879 to 1893. |
| George Pullman | was an American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel |