2. Thomas Edison Lighting Mechanical use of electricity

4. Alexander Graham Bell Telephone Telephone service

6. Jane Addams Settlement House Hull House Chicago, IL

8. Chief Joseph Nez Perce Try to escape to Canada

10. Booker T. Washington Born a slave Started Tuskegee Institute in Al Vocational education Accept social segregation now

12. W.E.B. DuBois Full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans Founder of NAACP

14. John D Rockefeller Captain of Industry Oil Had a monopoly Philanthropist

16. Andrew Carnegie Captain of industry - steel Homestead Strike Philanthropist

18. Henry Ford Captain of Industry - automobile Assembly Line Philanthropist

20. Susan B. Anthony Suffragist; 19 th Amendment

22. Woodrow Wilson WWI and the 14 Points League of Nations

24. Wright Brothers Invented airplane Kitty Hawk, NC

26. Guglielmo Marconi Developed the radio

28. David Sarnoff The Broadcast Industry NBC - Radio and TV

30. Georgia O'Keeffe Artist - Southwest and urban scenes

32. F Scott Fitzgerald Novelist - The Great Gatsby Roaring Twenties - 1920’s

34. John Steinbeck Novelist - The Grapes of Wrath Novel of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

36. Aaron Copland Composer of uniquely American music

38. George Gershwin Composer uniquely American music

40. Jacob Lawrence African American artist Harlem Renaissance Great Migration

42. Langston Hughes African American poet Harlem Renaissance

44. Duke Ellington African American Jazz musician Harlem Renaissance

46. Louis Armstrong African American Jazz musician

48. Bessie Smith African American Blues singer Harlem Renaissance

50. Franklin D Roosevelt President - Great Depression and WWII Created the New Deal and Fireside Chats Led US to victory over the Axis

52. Eleanor Roosevelt Wife of FDR Worked for expanding women’s rights

54. Adolph Hitler Leader of Germany - Axis Power Holocaust WWII

56. Benito Mussolini Fascist leader of Italy - Axis Power Dictator

58. Hideki Tojo Military dictator of Japan WWII

60. Winston Churchill Prime Minister United Kingdom - WWII Battle of Britain – didn’t give in Gave the “Iron Curtain” phrase to Cold War

62. Joseph Stalin Communist dictator of the Soviet Union Ally in WWII Enemy in Cold War

64. Harry S. Truman US President at end of WWII Ordered Atomic Bomb on Japan Established the Marshall Plan Integrated the US Military in 1948

66. George C. Marshall Chief of Staff in US Army during WWII Secretary of State after WWII Developed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and stop communism from spreading.

68. Rosie the Riveter Symbol of women working during WWII in the defense plants

70. Rosa Parks Arrested in Montgomery, AL for not giving up her seat. Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott

72. Martin Luther King, JR Leader Civil Rights Movement Civil Disobedience and Passive Resistance (non-violence)

74. Freedom Riders Civil Disobedience Passive resistance (non-violence) Broke Jim Crow Laws