200 people
23758496 | Albert Gallatin | Secretary of Treasury under President Jefferson | |
23758497 | Alice Paul | head of Nation Woman's Party | |
23758498 | Andrew Carnegie | Steel tycoon, Gospel of Wealth | |
23758499 | Andrew Mellon | Sec of State under Coolidge, steel + alum. tycoon | |
23758500 | Anne Bradstreet | first American poet | |
23758501 | Anne Hutchinson | Puritan minister of a dissident church | |
23758502 | Bernard Baruch | financier, adviser to Wilson and FDR | |
23758503 | Betty Friedan | writer, The Feminine Mystique | |
23758504 | Black Hawk | leader Sauk American Indian tribe | |
23758505 | Booker T. Washington | black advocate for self improvement for Black Americans | |
23758506 | Boss Tweed | Boss of Tammany Hall | |
23758507 | Brigham Young | Mormon community in Utah | |
23758508 | Bruce Barton | Portrayed Christ as super salesman | |
23758509 | Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan | imperialist, great countries had sea power | |
23758510 | Carrie Chapman | Woman's suffrage leader of NAWSA | |
23758511 | Carry A Nation | Temperance advocate through vandalism | |
23758512 | Cesar Chavez | United Farm Workers in CA | |
23758513 | Charles Darwin | Evolution | |
23758514 | Charles Evan Hughes | Sec of State after WWI, Chief Justice | |
23758515 | Charles G Finney | Evangelistic Presbyterian minister in 1820s and 30s | |
23758516 | Charles Schwab | US Steel Corp | |
23758517 | Charles Sumner | Beaten by Preston Brooks in Congress | |
23758518 | Chief Joseph | Leader of Nez Pierce | |
23758519 | Clara Barton | Founder of Red Cross | |
23758520 | Commodore Dewey | Navy, seized Philippines | |
23758521 | Copperheads | Democrats opposed Civil War | |
23758522 | Cyrus McCormick | Mechanical reaper | |
23758523 | Daniel Ellsberg | Leaked Pentagon Papers | |
23758524 | Daniel Webster | Webster Ashburton Treaty (Maine/Canada border) | |
23758525 | Dennis Kearney | Workingmen's Party of CA | |
23758526 | Denmark Vesey | West Indian slave who plotted uprising, executed | |
23758527 | Dorothea Dix | Mental health pioneer | |
23758528 | Dr. Francis Townsend | Townsend Plan, pensions for retirees | |
23758529 | Edgar Allen Poe | poems and short stories, the raven | |
23758530 | Edith Wharton | First women to win Pulitzer Prize, Age of Innocence | |
23758531 | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backwards | |
23758532 | Edwin M Stanton | Sec of War during Civil War, dismissed by Jackson under Tenure of Office | |
23758533 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Wife of FDR, civil rights advocate | |
23758534 | Eli Whitney | cotton gin, interchangeable parts for firearms | |
23758535 | Elias Howe | sewing machine | |
23758536 | Elihu Root | Sec of War under McKinley, Sec of State under T Roosevelt | |
23758537 | Elijah Lovejoy | St. Louis Observer, Presbyterian minister | |
23758538 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Social activist, early woman's movement, declaration of sentiment | |
23758539 | Emma Willard | Women's rights advocate, higher education for women | |
23758540 | Ernest Hemingway | Novelist, Lost Generation, Old Man and the Sea | |
23758541 | Eugene V Debs | Socialist union leader, International Labor Union and IWW | |
23758542 | F Scott Fitzgerald | writer, Lost Generation, Great Gatsby | |
23758543 | Father Charles Coughlin | Roman Catholic priest, radio to reach mass audience | |
23758544 | Frances Perkins | Sec of Labor, first woman on Cabinet with FDR, labor movement in New Deal | |
23758545 | Francis Cabot Lowell | Textile manufacturing industry | |
23758546 | Francis Willard | WTCU, prohibition | |
23758903 | Frank Lloyd Wright | architect and writer, prairie style | |
23758904 | Frank Norris | first naturalist writer | |
23758905 | Frederick Douglass | black abolitionist, North Star | |
23758906 | Frederick Jackson Turner | frontier thesis | |
23758907 | Gabriel Prosser | unsuccessful slave leader of revolt in Richmond, VA during 1800 | |
23758908 | General Braddock | unsuccessful British commander in NA during F+I War | |
23760208 | General Douglass MacArthur | US General in WWII and Korean War, Southwest Pacific | |
23760209 | General Winfield Scott | General in Mexican War, unsuccessful Whig candidate in 1852 | |
23760210 | George Mason | author of Virginia constitution and Declaration of Rights | |
23760211 | George Rogers Clark | preeminent military officer on northwestern frontier during Revolution, related to William Clark | |
23760212 | George Wallace | Governor of Alabama, ran for president 4 times and failed | |
23760213 | George Washington Carver | peanut botanist | |
23760214 | George Whitefield | Church of England, Methodist movement | |
23760215 | Geronimo | Apache chief | |
23760216 | Gilbert Stuart | painter, one of foremost portraitists | |
23760217 | Gilbert Tennant | Methodist preacher during Great Awakening | |
23760218 | Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Meade | Union officers in Civil War | |
23760219 | Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Mitchell | Watergate scandal | |
23760220 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's cabin | |
23760221 | Harriet Tubman | assisted slaves escape w/ Underground railroad | |
23760222 | Helen Hunt Jackson | romanticized west as utopia | |
23760223 | Henry Cabot Lodge | imperialist, nativist, anti-Wilson | |
23760224 | Henry Clay | great compromiser, American system, Missouri compromise of 1820, compromise of 1850, and more | |
23760225 | Henry David Thoreau | transcendentalist, wrote Walden Pond | |
23760226 | Henry George | Progress and Poverty, labor rights | |
23760227 | Henry James | realistic writer of late 1800s, the Ambassadors, Portrait of a Lady | |
23760228 | Henry L Mencken | Debunker of 1920s, ridiculed middle class in Smart Set and American Mercury | |
23760229 | Henry S Kissinger | Nixon's national security adviser, Vietnam war policy (peace with honor) | |
23760230 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Popular poet of the day, fireside poems | |
23760231 | Henry Ward Beecher | liberal American Congregational clergyman, involved in adultery trial | |
23760232 | Herbert Croly | influential nationalist, Promise of American Life | |
23760233 | Horace Greeley | editor of New York Tribune, liberal leader | |
23760234 | Huey Long | rose to power through attacks on banks, trusts, and utilities | |
23760235 | Ida Tarbell | muckracker on Standard Oil trust | |
23760236 | Jack London | popular and powerful writer of the time, Call of the Wild | |
23760237 | Jackie Robinson | first black in MLB | |
23760238 | Jacob Riis | How the Other Half Lives | |
23760239 | James B Duke | tobacco processing industry | |
23760240 | James Fenimore Cooper | 1st great American novelist, established American hero Natty Bumpo | |
23760241 | James G Blaine | champion of Half Breeds | |
23760242 | James Oglethorpe | military founder of Georgia | |
23760243 | James Otis | No Taxation w/o representation | |
23760244 | James Weldon Johnson | Harlem Renaissance author | |
23760245 | Jane Addams | Hill House movement, first American woman to win Nobel | |
23760246 | Jeanne Kirkpatrick | UN ambassador under Reagan, first American woman to be so | |
23760247 | Jesse Jackson | Civil rights activist and Baptist minister | |
23760248 | Jesse Owens | Black track athlete in 1936 Berlin Olympics | |
23760249 | Jimmy Hoffa | president of Teamsters union, sent to jail but pardoned by Nixon | |
23760250 | John Bartram | early botanist and horticulturalist | |
23760251 | John Brown | white abolitionist, Harper's Ferry raid, Bleeding Kansas | |
23760537 | John C Calhoun | Theory of Nullification | |
23760538 | John C Fremont | Explorer of Far West, helped in Bear Flag Revolution | |
23760539 | John D Rockefeller | Standard Oil Co, monopoly, vertical and horizontal integration | |
23760540 | John Dewey | Pragmatism, advocate for educational reform | |
23762300 | John Dickinson | PA debater, wanted reconciliation with Great Britain | |
23762301 | John Foster Dulles | Sec of State to Eisenhower, Massive retaliation | |
23762302 | John Jacob Astor | American Fur company, mountain men and others in frontier | |
23762303 | John Locke | Enlightenment Thinker, Of Civil Gov't | |
23762304 | John Paul Jones | Naval officer in Revolutionary War | |
23762305 | John Rolfe | Tobacco pioneer in Jamestown, married Pocahontas | |
23762306 | John Smith | founder of Jamestown, explored Virginia colony | |
23762307 | John Steinbeck | wrote Grapes of Wrath, on Great Depression and dust bowl | |
23762308 | John Sutter | Gold Rush of 1849 | |
23762309 | John Winthrop | Massachusetts Bay Colony, idealistic City on a hill | |
23762310 | Jonathan Edwards | fiery preacher fueled Great Awakening | |
23762311 | Joseph Pulitzer | founder of yellow journalism, aggressive and engrossing style | |
23762312 | Joseph Smith | Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) | |
23762313 | Josiah Strong | Nativist, ideals of democracy and civilization lie with WASPs | |
23762314 | JP Morgan | banking mogul, bought Carnegie Steel | |
23762315 | Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson | Confederate heroes of Civil War | |
23762316 | Lincoln Steffens | Advocate against municipal corruption | |
23762317 | Louis Brandeis | First Jewish Supreme court judge | |
23762318 | Louis Sullivan | Skyscraper | |
23762319 | Lucretia Mott | First American feminist, Seneca Falls convention | |
23762320 | Lucy Stone | influential lecturer in women's rights (antebellum) | |
23762321 | Malcolm X | Nation of Islam, violent defense of blacks if necessary | |
23762322 | Marcus Garvey | Jamaican promoting black nationalism | |
23762323 | Margaret Fuller | Individual liberation and questionable gender roles | |
23762324 | Margaret Sanger | birth control advocate | |
23762325 | Maria Mitchell | American astronomer who discovered comet, protested slavery, didn't wear cotton | |
23762326 | Mark Twain | great American writer of 19th century, Huck Finn | |
23762327 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Baptist pastor dedicated to civil rights, I have a dream | |
23762328 | Mary Baker Eddy | Church of Christ, scientist | |
23762329 | Mary Ellen Lease | Populist orator, raise less corn and more hell | |
23762330 | Medgar Evers | NAACP official who did not want desegregation, killed in movement | |
23762331 | Mercy Otis Warren | influential playwright, History of the Revolution | |
23762332 | Nat Turner | slave preacher, killed 60 whites in an insurrection | |
23762333 | Nathaniel Bacon | Led a rebellion in 1677 for back country grievances | |
23762334 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | transcendentalist author, Scarlet Letter | |
23762335 | Noah Webster | Webster's Dictionary | |
23762336 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Fireside poet, The Nautilus | |
23762337 | Patrick Henry | Give me liberty or give me death | |
23762338 | Philip Randolph | All black union, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | |
23762339 | Phyllis Wheatley | black poet, taught to read and write by master | |
23762340 | Pocahontas | Powhatan Indian, converts to Christianity and marries John Rolfe | |
23762341 | Queen Liliuokalani | Queen of Hawaii, removed from power by US | |
23762342 | Rachel Carson | Environmentalist | |
23762343 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalist, Nature, Self Reliance | |
23762344 | Richard Henry Lee | Complete independence from Britain, 2nd Continental Congress | |
23764552 | Robert Fulton | steamboat | |
23764553 | Robert M LaFollette | state-level reformer governor of Wisconsin | |
23764554 | Robert Morris | Head of the government's treasury during the Articles of Confederation | |
23764555 | J Robert Oppenheimer | Manhattan Project | |
23764556 | Roger B Taney | Chief Justice after Marshall | |
23764557 | Roger Williams | Salem, Massachusetts minister, separation between church and state | |
23764558 | Rosa Parks | refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger | |
23764559 | Sacagawea | Native American woman who led Lewis and Clark | |
23764560 | Sally Ride | First woman astronaut in space | |
23764561 | Sam Adams | Boston Massacre, Sons of Liberty | |
23764562 | Sam Houston | 1st president of Texas, took Santa Anna prisoner at Battle of San Jacinto | |
23764563 | Samuel Chase | Federalist Supreme Court Justice, impeached by House at Jefferson's urging | |
23764564 | Samuel FB Morse | telegraph | |
23764565 | Samuel Gompers | American Federation of Labor, anti-imperialist | |
23764566 | Samuel Slater | Spinning mill in RI, modern factory | |
23764567 | Sandra Day O'Conner | 1st female Supreme Court Justice, appointed by Ronald Reagan | |
23764568 | Sinclair Lewis | 1st American to win Nobel Prize in literature, Babbit, debunker | |
23764569 | Sitting Bull | Leader of the Sioux | |
23764570 | Sojourner Truth | underground railroad, black advocate for women's rights | |
23764571 | Stephen Austin | encouraged settlers to move to Texas, land from Mexico | |
23764572 | Stephen Crane | Realistic writer, Civil War realities in the Red Badge of Courage | |
23764573 | Stephen Kearney | Led small army to capture Santa Fe; joined Bear Flag Revolution in CA | |
23764574 | Stokely Carmichael | Black Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Black Panthers too | |
23764575 | Susan B Anthony | Founded the National Women's Loyal League, abolition and women's rights | |
23764576 | Tecumseh | Prophet's brother and Chief of the Shawnees, Tippecanoe | |
23764577 | Thaddeus Stevens | use of war to abolish slavery immediately and completely | |
23764578 | Theodore Dreiser | Wrote Sister Carrie exposing of single women in cities | |
23764579 | Theodore Weld | Abolitionist who believed slavery was a sin, wrote American Slavery as it Is | |
23764580 | Thomas Hooker | Minister of Newton, founds Connecticut | |
23764581 | Thomas Hutchinson | Tory governor of Massachusetts, Pro Brit | |
23764582 | Thomas Nast | Political cartoonist of 1870s | |
23764583 | Thomas Paine | Wrote Common Sense | |
23764584 | Thurgood Marshall | Supreme Court Justice, file legal challenges against segregation | |
23764585 | Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle | |
23764586 | WEB Du Bois | Founds NAACP, blacks should fight for civil rights | |
23764587 | Walt Whitman | Author, poet, journalist, Leaves of Grass | |
23764588 | Walter Rauschenbusch | Protestant theologian with socialist inclinations, Social Gospel | |
23764589 | Warren E. Burger | Supreme Court Chief Justice during Nixon's term, replaces Warren | |
23764590 | Washington Irving | Father of American literature, Rip Van Winkle | |
23764591 | Willa Cather | American writer in the 1920s | |
23764592 | William Bradford | Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower Compact | |
23764593 | William Faulkner | American writer in the 1920s | |
23764594 | William Lloyd Garrison | the Liberator & he found the New England Antislavery Society and American Antislavery Society | |
23764595 | William Penn | Pennsylvania, democracy/religious freedom, good indian relations | |
23764596 | William Pitt | Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War | |
23764597 | William Randolph Hearst | reformist investigative reporting, Hearst Castle, owned 28 major newspapers and 18 magazines | |
23764598 | William Seward | Seward's Folly (Alaska), opponent of the Fugitive Slave Act | |
23764599 | William Jennings Bryan | Free Silver, Cross of Gold | |
23764600 | Zebulon Pike & Stephen Long | Pike: explorer for whom Pikes Peak is names; Long: Great American Desert | |
23765355 | Spiro T Agnew | VP under Nixon, resigned for extortion and bribery charges |