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TAKS People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Revolutionized and modernized the steel industry, late 19th century | Andrew Carnegie |
| Industrialist who monopolized the oil industry in the US; owned Standard Oil Company | John D. Rockefeller |
| Famous political cartoonist responsible for the arrest of Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall, late 1800's | Thomas Nast |
| First president of the American Federation of Labor | Samuel Gompers |
| led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War 1898; president 1901-1909, started Panama Canal, founded Bull Moose party (Progressive)1912, split Republican party, allowed Democrat Wilson to win | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Founder of the national Women's Suffrage Association; worked for voting rights for women | Susan B. Anthony |
| Labor leader; Socialist Party presidential candidate five times, never wins | Eugene V. Debs |
| Led the Preogressive Party, favored breakup of monopolies, called for farm relief | Robert LaFollette |
| Made the mass production of cars possible through the use of the assembly line, 1913 | Henry Ford |
| African American civil rights leader, writer, and scholar; one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909 | W.E.B. Dubois |
| Wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History; influenced T. Roosevelt in his buildup of US Navy (1901-1909) | Alfred T. Mahan |
| Muckraker, author of The Jungle, influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act | Upton Sinclair |
| led the Tenth Negro Cavalry in the Spanish American War 1898; led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War One | John J. Pershing |
| 1914; heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary; his assassination triggered World War One | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Republican senator who wanted trade expansion during the imperialism period, then opposed the league of nations after World War One | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Famous criminal lawyer that defended John T. Scopes, 1925 | Clarence Darrow |
| Politician that supported the ordinary person, silverite candidate, unsuccessfully ran for president three times, prosecutor in Scopes trial | William Jennings Bryan |
| Two Italian immigrants tried and convicted for murder in the 1920's, more because they were immigrants and anarchists than from evidence | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| Pilot who made the first non-stop solo flight between NYC and Paris, 1927, became an American hero | Charles Lindbergh |
| American author of The Grapes of Wrath; story about the depression and the Dust Bowl; 1939 | John Steinbeck |
| 1919-1945; founded Fascism; dictator of Italy for almost 21 years; World War Two leader of Axis power | Benito Mussolini |
| Nazi dictator of Germany, an Axis Power in World War Two; ordered the mass murder of six million Jews | Adolf Hitler |
| Dictator of communist Soviet Union 1926-1953, ruled by terror,; US ally in World War Two, one of the "Big Three", enemy in the Cold War | Joseph Stalin |
| prime Minister of Great Britain during World War Two; one of the "Big Three"; gave famous "Iron Curtain" speech | Winston Churchill |
| Texan, World War Two admiral,Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, developed the island hopping strategy used in the Pacific during World War Two | Chester W. Nimitz |
| Supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War Two, known for D-Day invasion | Dwight Eisenhower |
| World War Two general, led the attack to regain the Philippines, led the occupation force in Japan, led UN forces in Korean War | Douglas MacArthur |
| Controversial tank general during World War Two, directed the north Africa campaign, assisted with the Battle of the Bulge, considered one of the most successful field commanders of any war | George Patton |
| Chief of Staff of the US Army in World War Two; created the plan to rebuild Europe after the war, 1947 | George Marshall |
| World War Two general that commanded US forces on Omaha Beach on D-Day; would become the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | Omar Bradley |
| Developed vacxcines for polio and influenza during the mid-1950's | Jonas Salk |
| leader of communist Cuba since 1959; opposed JFk during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis | Fidel Castro |
| American expressionist artist known for her paintings of huge flowers and the Southwest desert, mid-twentieth century | Gerogia O'Keefe |
| US Senator, 1946-1957; accused many of being communist without proof, his "McCarthyism" ruined many careers and reputations | Joseph McCarthy |
| Segregationist governor of Alabama in the early 1960's; third party candidate for president in 1968 | George Wallace |
| African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL; led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement | Rosa Parks |
| Prominent civil rights leader of the 1960's; preached nonviolent civil disobedience; president of the SCLC, gave "I have a Dream" speechat the March on Washington 1963, assassinated 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| African-American civil rights leader that coined the term "Black Power"; moved away from nonviolent protests | Stokely Carmichael |
| Mexican-American labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers, used boycotts frequently | Cesar Chavez |
| First man to walk on the moon, 1969 | Neil Armstrong |
| First African-American woman elected to Congress and first to run for president | Shirley Chisholm |
| Texan, third party candidate for president 1992, opponent of NAFTA | H. Ross Perot |
| First woman Supreme Court Justice 1981 | Sandra Day O'Conner |
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