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A. Bruce History 7 SOL People Review

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