TNReady U.S. History Important People

Gilded Age investment banker, controlled businesses and influenced the economy

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• JP Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

African-American early activist, Jamaican, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (the UNIA), black separation and the formation of self-governing black nations in Africa

• Marcus Garvey

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

during the Gilded Age, political "boss" of New York City known for corruption, graft, etc.

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• William "Boss" Tweed

• Thomas Nast

Inventor, creates modern alternating current (AC)

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Bessemer

Nicknamed "Black Jack", commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in WWI

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

• Alvin C. York

• John J. Pershing

Creator of the Model T, Assembly Line production

• Andrew Carnegie

• Wright Brothers

• Henry Bessemer

• Henry Ford

32nd President of U.S., Great Depression/New Deal, WWII, polio

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry S. Truman

• Woodrow Wilson

Voted for 19th Amendment, changed vote after getting letter from mother, His ONE vote created TN as the "Perfect 36"

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Harry Burn

• Governor A.H. Roberts

27th President of the U.S., Progressive reformer, "Dollar" Diplomacy

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• William H. Taft

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Famous American aviator, 1st solo flight across the Atlantic

• Harlem Hell fighter

• Tuskegee Airman

• Charles Lindbergh

• Dwight Eisenhower