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| 7965418035 | new immigrants | Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe. | 0 | |
| 7965418048 | Jane Addams | Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. | 1 | |
| 7965418049 | Charles Darwin | He was an English naturalist who wrote the On the Origin of the Species in 1859. His theory stated that in nature the strongest of a species survive, the weaker animals die out, leaving only the stronger to reproduce. Through this process of "natural selection" the entire species improves | 2 | |
| 7965418050 | Booker T Washington | He was a prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. | 3 | |
| 7965418051 | W.E.B Du Bois | He believed that African Americans should strive for full rights. He was a founded of the NAACP. | 4 | |
| 7965418052 | Joseph Pulitzer | He used yellow journalism in competition with Hearst to sell more newspapers. He also achieved the goal of becoming a leading national figure of the Democratic Party. | 5 | |
| 7965418053 | William Randolph Hearst | A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism." | 6 | |
| 7965488641 | William James | He was a philosopher on Harvard faculty, who wrote Principles of Psychology, The Will of to Believe, Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism. | 7 | |
| 7965418054 | John Dewey | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education. | 8 | |
| 7965418055 | Carrie Chapman Catt | A suffragette who was president of the National Women's Suffrage Association, and founder of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Instrumental in obtaining passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. | 9 | |
| 7965418056 | Horatio Alger | Popular novelist during the Industrial Revolution who wrote "rags to riches" books praising the values of hard work | 10 | |
| 7965418057 | Mark Twain | United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. | 11 | |
| 7965418061 | Frederick Law Olmsted | Designer of New York City's Central Park, who wanted cities that exposed people to the beauties of nature. One of his projects, the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, gave a rise to the influential "City Beautiful" movement | 12 |
