Significant People in U.S. History

overthrown by American settlers- led to annexation of Hawaii

• Chief Joseph

• Henry Ford

• Queen Liliuokalani

• William Jennings Bryan

his Standard Oil Co. monopolized US oil refining industry

• Henry Bessemer

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• George Dewey

Thomas Nast’s cartoons attacked his NYC Tammany Hall machine

• William M. Tweed

• Upton Sinclair

• John Hay

• Jacob Riis

Secty of State under McKinley- proposed Open Door Policy in China

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• John Hay

• Thomas Edison

• William H. Seward

founded Hull House- a community center for poor in Chicago

• Susan B. Anthony

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jane Addams

inventions included phonograph, light bulb, “Wizard of Menlo Park”

• Thomas Nast

• Thomas Webber

• Thomas Jones

• Thomas Edison

campaigned for women’s rights- especially the right to vote

• Jane Addams

• Ida B. Wells

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frances Willard

book “How the Other Half Lives”- resulted in help for NYC poor

• Jacob Riis

• Ida B. Wells

• Matthew C. Perry

• Upton Sinclair

steelmaking monopoly- gave away millions- funded 2,800 libraries

• Vanderbilt

• Rockefeller

• Morgan

• Carnegie

muckraker who wrote “The Jungle”- exposing meat packing abuses

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Jane Addams

• WEB DuBois