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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison. Lighting Mechanical use of electricity. Alexander Graham Bell. Telephone Telephone service. Jane Addams. Settlement House Hull House Chicago, IL. Chief Joseph. Nez Perce Try to escape to Canada. Booker T. Washington. Born a slave Started Tuskegee Institute in Al

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Thomas Edison

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  1. Thomas Edison • Lighting • Mechanical use of electricity

  2. Alexander Graham Bell • Telephone • Telephone service

  3. Jane Addams • Settlement House • Hull House • Chicago, IL

  4. Chief Joseph • Nez Perce • Try to escape to Canada

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

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

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

  8. Andrew Carnegie • Captain of industry - steel • Homestead Strike • Philanthropist

  9. Henry Ford • Captain of Industry - automobile • Assembly Line • Philanthropist

  10. Susan B. Anthony • Suffragist; 19th Amendment

  11. Woodrow Wilson • WWI and the 14 Points • League of Nations

  12. Wright Brothers • Invented airplane • Kitty Hawk, NC

  13. Guglielmo Marconi • Developed the radio

  14. David Sarnoff • The Broadcast Industry • NBC - Radio and TV

  15. Georgia O'Keeffe • Artist - Southwest and urban scenes

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

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

  18. Aaron Copland • Composer of uniquely American music

  19. George Gershwin • Composer uniquely American music

  20. Jacob Lawrence • African American artist • Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration

  21. Langston Hughes • African American poet • Harlem Renaissance

  22. Duke Ellington • African American Jazz musician • Harlem Renaissance

  23. Louis Armstrong • African American Jazz musician

  24. Bessie Smith • African American Blues singer • Harlem Renaissance

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

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