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25 vips of history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| w.e.b Dubois | one of the founders of NAACP |
| Thomas Edison | key inventor of the early 20th century |
| andrew carnegie | the steel king |
| john d. rockefeller | the oil king |
| henry ford | made the auto mobile affordable |
| upton siclair | leader of the early 20th century muckrackers |
| samuel gompers | father of the american labor movement |
| william jennings bryan | the great commoner |
| ida tarbell | muckracking jurnalist who exposed john d. rockefellers standard oil as a trust |
| susan b. anthony | long time social reformer and womens suferage leader |
| albert einstain | quantom theory |
| babe routh | popularized professional athletics |
| jane addams | long time humanitarium and social reformer |
| douglas macarthur | brilliant pacific commander in ww2 |
| aleanor roosevelt | unrivaled first lady |
| robert oppenheimer | key figure in the manhattan project |
| walt disney | 20th century animator and entertainment mogul |
| earl warren | supreme court cheif justice |
| martin luther king jr. | greatest of the black civil rights leaders, led the successful montgomery bus boycott |
| thurgood marshal | successful NAACP lawyer in the brown v. board of education |
| leasar charvez | organized united farm workers |
| little rock nine | group of african american students chosen to intergrate central high school in arkansas |
| betty friedan | author of the feminine mystique and founder of the national organization of women |
| henry kissinger | changed the nature of the secretary of state position |
| bill gates | his microsoft revolutionized the PC |