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US HISTORY EOC REVIEW: PEOPLE
Directions: Explain the significance of each person/group to United States history.
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John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Thomas Edison
American Federation of Labor
Sitting Bull
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
Hull House
Langston Hughes
Irving Berlin
1920s Tin Pan Alley musician best known for his song “Blue Skies”
Tin Pan Alley
Group of popular musicians during the 1920s (saw their demise due to
the popularization of the radio)
One of FDR’s New Deal reforms that promoted job growth through the
damming of the Tennessee River and provided electricity to the poor,
rural South
FDR’s wife and public face of his administration. Known for being an
advocate for Civil Rights and Women’s Rights
NAACP
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene V. Debs
League of Nations
Henry Ford
Louis Armstrong
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Renowned inventor known for the phonograph, light bulb, and motion
picture camera
First nationally organized workers’ union in the US. Founded by Samuel
Gompers
Sioux Indian chief that violently opposed white settlement in the West.
Organized his forces (under Crazy Horse) to defeat Custer at the Battle of
Little Big Horn
Muckraker who brought about more federal involvement on the meat
processing and food production industries through his book The Jungle
Social activist that founded the Hull House in Chicago
Settlement house opened to provide aid and job training to poor
immigrant women and children
Character that came to symbolize segregation in the South. The Jim Crow
Laws were a series a laws designed to restrict to rights of African
Americans
Organization founded to combat the unequal treatment given under the
Jim Crow Laws (National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People)
Muckraker who single-handedly took on Rockefeller’s Standard Oil
Company through her book The History of Standard Oil
An investigative journalist who brought attention to the abuses and
unequal treatment of workers by large corporations
US President who founded the National Park Service, gained attention for
the US among other countries and built the Panama Canal
Socialist labor leader who organized the Pullman Strike and was arrested
in 1917 for violating the Espionage Act during World War I
International organization founded through Wilson’s Fourteen Points plan
after World War I to promote peace and compromise between nations.
Business leader who introduced the assembly line method to the
automobile industry thereby providing a more affordable car (Model T)
1920s musician who popularized jazz music along with Duke Ellington and
created jazz’s “scat” style
Most famous African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow
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“Robber Baron” and Captain of Industry who founded the Standard Oil
Company
First trust built in the United States
Tennessee Valley Authority
Eleanor Roosevelt
Huey Long
Louisiana governor who opposed FDR’s New Deal reforms by promoting a
“Share the Wealth” money redistribution program
A. Philip Randolph
African American labor leader who organized a March on Washington for
equal job opportunities during World War II
Character created to promote the equality of women in the workplace
during World War II
US Senator who led the “Red Scare” movement during the Cold War
through his McCarthyism efforts
President who passed the Interstate Highway Act and promoted the
furthering of the Space Race in the US
President after FDR’s death who was the first to desegregate the US
military
Player who broke the color barrier in major league baseball
Rosie the Riveter
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Joseph McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Jackie Robinson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Robert F. Kennedy
SNCC
SCLC
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National Organization of Women
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
Rachel Carson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Most renowned leader of the Civil Rights Movement who advocated for
non-violent resistance and founded the SCLC
President who oversaw the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Civil
Rights movement. Assassinated in Dallas in 1963
President who promoted his “Great Society” policies as reforms to
continue the rebuilding effort during the 1960s and oversaw Vietnam
Unsuccessful presidential candidate defeated by Lyndon B. Johnson’s
“Daisy” ad. Leader of the conservative movement in the US
JFK’s brother, Attorney General, advocate for Civil Rights and candidate
for president before being assassinated in 1968
Organization of student activists that fought for Civil Rights through sit-ins
and freedom rides. Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Organization of church leaders and pastors founded by MLK, Jr. to fight
for Civil Rights through boycotts. Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
Organization that fought for women’s rights and equality in US society.
Beginners of the modern Women’s Rights Movement
Immigrant labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers labor
union
Labor union who fought for the rights of immigrant workers in the US
Began the modern Environmentalist Movement in the US through her
book Silent Spring
President known for opening China to western trade and resigned due to
the Watergate scandal
President after Nixon who used the Presidential Power of Pardon to
pardon Nixon from all wrong doing in Watergate
President who oversaw the Camp David Accords and the Iranian Hostage
Crisis
President who promoted his Reaganomics economic recovery plan and
oversaw a solution to the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Iran-Contra Incident, and
end of the Cold War
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
President who oversaw the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA), impeached for perjury (Monica Lewinsky affair), the Columbine
High School attack, and Oklahoma City Bombing
President who presided over the Sept 11 attacks, War on Terror,
Hurricane Katrina, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq