US History - Unit 3 People Quiz

Invented the telephone in 1876, revolutionizing communication.

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Guglielmo Marconi

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute; promoted vocational education and economic self-sufficiency for African Americans.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Frederick Douglass

• George Washington Carver

An inventor known for developing the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and motion pictures.

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

Leader of Tammany Hall, a corrupt New York political machine that controlled city politics through bribery and fraud.

• William Marcy Tweed (Boss Tweed)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Alfred E. Smith

• Robert Moses

A Scottish-American industrialist who expanded the steel industry and promoted philanthropy through libraries and education.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which fought for workers' rights, better wages, and hours.

• Samuel Gompers

• Eugene V. Debs

• John L. Lewis

• A. Philip Randolph

Founder of Standard Oil, he became the world’s first billionaire and controlled much of the oil industry through monopolies.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

A social reformer and co-founder of Hull House, which provided education and services to immigrants and the poor.

• Jane Addams

• Dorothy Day

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Frances Perkins

A journalist and photographer who exposed poor living conditions in tenements through How the Other Half Lives.

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida B. Wells

• Lewis Hine

Author of The Jungle, which exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry, leading to food safety reforms.

• Upton Sinclair

• Mark Twain

• Ernest Hemingway

• John Steinbeck