US History since 1877 Individuals (Fall Semester)

Steel industrialist and philanthropist in the Gilded Age

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

Gilded Age philanthropist and founder of the Standard Oil Company

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

Inventor of the telephone

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

Inventor of the electric light bulb

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Jay Gould

• Thomas Edison

Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• Terence Powderly

• Eugene Debs

• Samuel Gompers

• Jacob Coxey

Leader of the New York political machine called Tammany Hall

• Simon Cameron

• Boss Tweed

• Samuel Gompers

• Jay Gould

3-time presidential candidate and prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Trial

• William Jennings Bryan

• James Weaver

• Eugene Debs

• William McKinley

Muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Frank Norris

• Jacob Riis

Muckraker who described urban poverty in How the Other Half Lives

• Upton Sinclair

• Frank Norris

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

Social worker and founder of the Hull House

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Addams

• Eleanor Roosevelt