Important people in U.S. History

Who was the Latino soldier that fought in the Vietnam War that received the Medal of Honor for bravery?

• Alvin York

• Douglas MacArthur

• Roy Benavides

• Vernon Baker

Who was the inventor that created the light bulb?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Samuel Morse

• Henry Bessemer

Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court?

• Jane Addams

• Ida B. Wells

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Sanda Day O'Connor

Who was President during The Great Depression and World War II?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

Who was the entrepreneur who had a monopoly on steel in America?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

Who was the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues?

• Hank Aaron

• Roberto Clemente

• Satchel Paige

• Jackie Robinson

Who was President of the U.S. when World War I started?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William McKinley

Who was President of the U.S. that was a trustbuster, a conservationist, and helped form the Rough Riders?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

Who was the muckraker that wrote the Jungle, a novel about the meatpacking industry?

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

Who was the Latina that organized the United Farm Workers union (UFW) for better migrant conditions?

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Rosa Parks

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dolores Huerta