Rebuilding America

He developed the incandescent light bulb at his research lab in Menlo Park, NJ.

• Thomas Edison
• George Westinghouse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie
• JP Morgan

He revolutionized business by practicing vertical and horizontal integration.

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Sitting Bull

• John Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

This socialist organized the American Railway Union and later ran for President of the United States.

• Eugene Debs
• William Cody

• George Custer

• Lewis Pullman

• Andrew Carnegie

This presidential candidate did not want mankind crucified upon a cross of gold, instead favoring bimetallism.

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Grover Cleveland

• Benjamin Harrison

• William Jennings Bryan

He was the head of the Tammany Hall political machine and later went to prison for his crimes.

• George Westinghouse

• Roscoe Conklin

• William Tweed

• Thomas Durant

• Jacob Riis

His Standard Oil Company monopolized the oil industry and helped give rise to the term "robber baron."

• John Rockefeller
• JP Morgan

• George Westinghouse
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

He introduced the first telephone in 1876.

• Thomas Watson

• Thomas Edison
• George Westinghouse
• Alexander Graham Bell

• JP Morgan

He most famously developed a power system known as alternating current.

• Nikola Tesla

• George Westinghouse

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison

• Herbert Spencer

He led the forces that defeated George Custer at Little Bighorn, and was later killed in the build-up to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

• Red Cloud

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Wokova

He was the leading financier of the Gilded Age and created many mergers and consolidations that gave him great control over several industries.

• JP Morgan
• Thomas Edison
• George Westinghouse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie