STATE OF TENNESSEE IMPORTANT PEOPLE SPI Who am I?
Clara Barton Female Civil War Aided in hospitals American Red Cross
Samuel Gompers Male Industrial Revolution Fought for workers rights American Federation of Labor President of the Labor Union from
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1960’s African American Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Act of 1964 Memphis Assassinated
Gov. Austin Peay Reformer Tennessean Protector of Nature
Jane Addams Female Hull House Better housing for low income people Won Nobel Peace Prize
Ulysses S. Grant Male Civil War Leader Union Blue General of the North
Anne Dallas Duddley Female Reformer Suffrage Women’s movement Right to Vote
Chief Justice Roger Taney Male Lawyer Was critical in decisions during the Civil War Dred Scott
Fredrick Douglas Civil War African American Abolitionist
Jefferson Davis Male Civil War Confederacy Leader President of the South
Abraham Lincoln Male Civil War Leader Union Emancipation Proclamation 16 th President
Robert E. Lee Male Civil War Leader Gray Confederate South Rebel General of the Confederacy