US History from 1865 to Present – People Review

Reconstruction and Segregation

  1. _____ Abraham Lincoln
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  1. Believed preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South

  1. _____ Frederick Douglass
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  1. Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the Civil War; President of Washington College

  1. _____ Robert E. Lee
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  1. Believed equality for African Americans could be achieved through vocational education

  1. _____ Rutherford B. Hayes
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  1. Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting

  1. _____ Booker T. Washington
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  1. Became the President as a result of a compromise in 1876. Viewed as the end of Reconstruction

  1. _____ W.E.B Du Bois
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  1. Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans

Westward Expansion – Impact on Native Americans

  1. _____ Sitting Bull
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  1. Leader of the Nez Percé; stated “I am tired. My heart is sick & sad. From where the sun stands I will fight no more forever. “

  1. _____ Geronimo
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  1. US General who lost his life at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

  1. _____ Chief Joseph
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  1. Sioux Chief; victorious at the Battle of Little Bighorn

  1. _____ Col. Custer
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  1. Apache Indian leader; led attacks against US settlers in the Southwest.

Business and the Growth of Cities

  1. _____ John Rockefeller
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  1. Created the telephone service

  1. _____ Andrew Carnegie
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  1. Captain of the Shipping and Railroad Industry

  1. _____ Cornelius Vanderbilt
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  1. Invented the electric lighting

  1. _____ Thomas Edison
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  1. Worked for women’s suffrage

  1. _____ Alexander Graham Bell
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  1. Captain of the Oil Industry

  1. _____ Susan B Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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  1. Created the Hull House

  1. _____ Jane Addams
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  1. Captain of the Steel Industry

Spanish American War and World War I

  1. _____ Theodore Roosevelt
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  1. Expanded the Monroe Doctrine to prevent Europeans from getting involved in Latin American

  1. _____ Woodrow Wilson
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  1. Created a plan for peace called the League of Nations. The plan was outlined in the Fourteen Points

The Roaring Twenties and Great Depression

  1. _____ The Wright Brothers
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  1. Painter; who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration

  1. _____ Henry Ford
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  1. Harlem Renaissance jazz musician

  1. _____Georgia O’Keefe
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  1. Harlem Renaissance jazz musician

  1. _____ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  1. Used the assembly line to make the automobile

  1. _____ John Steinbeck
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  1. Poet; wrote about African American cultural roots

  1. _____ Aaron Copland
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  1. Novelist; wrote the Great Gatsby

  1. _____ George Gershwin
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  1. Created the New Deal, government programs to help the nation recover from the Great Depression

  1. _____ Jacob Lawrence
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  1. Composer who wrote American music

  1. _____ Langston Hughes
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  1. Composer who wrote American music

  1. _____ Duke Ellington
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  1. Invented the airplane

  1. _____ Louis Armstrong
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  1. Harlem Renaissance blues singer

  1. _____ Bessie Smith
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  1. Painter; known for urban scenes and later painting the Southwest.

  1. _____ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  1. Novelist; portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930s

World War II

  1. _____ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  1. Fascist leader of Germany

  1. _____ Harry Truman
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  1. Symbol for women who took jobs in defense plants

  1. _____ Winston Churchill
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  1. President of the USA during the majority of the war; died 3 weeks before the end of the war

  1. _____ Joseph Stalin
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  1. Fascist leader of Italy

  1. _____ Adolf Hitler
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  1. Leader of Great Britain

  1. _____ Benito Mussolini
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  1. Communist leader of the Soviet Union

  1. _____ Hideki Tojo
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  1. President of the USA at the end of the war; authorized the dropping of the atomic bombs

  1. _____ Rosie the Riveter
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  1. Fascist leader of Japan

Cold War

  1. _____ George Marshall
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  1. Created the policy of containment to stop the spread of communism

  1. _____Harry Truman
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  1. Created a plan to aid European countries after WWII

  1. _____ Eleanor Roosevelt
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  1. Played a role in expanding women’s rights

Civil Rights Movement

  1. _____ Martin Luther King Jr.
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  1. Took a passive resistance against segregation

  1. _____ Rosa Parks
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  1. Leader of the Montgomery bus boycott

Twentieth Century Culture

  1. _____ Charles Drew
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  1. Literature

  1. _____ J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  1. Computer Technology - Microsoft

  1. _____ Frank Lloyd Wright
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  1. Medicine - plasma

  1. _____ Martha Graham
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  1. Architecture

  1. _____ Henry Louis Gates
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  1. Dance

  1. _____ Bill Gates
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  1. History

  1. _____ Ray Kroc
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  1. Franchising – McDonald’s

  1. _____ Maya Angelou
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  1. Physics – Manhattan Project