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WorksheetsImportant People US History STAAR
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 20mins
President from 1981-1989/ Encouraged business activity -Reaganomics
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Mexican American physician & surgeon founder of G.I. Forum
J. P. Morgan
Phyllis Schlafy
Hector P. Garcia
Cesar Chavez
Arrested for refusing to give up seat on a bus (Bus Boycott) 1955-1956
Rosa Parks
Phyllis Schlafy
Betty Friedan
Jackie Kennedy
1835-published Democracy in America Laissez Faire-Liberty-Individualism-Egalitarianism
Harry S. Truman
FDR
Omar Bradley
Alexis de Tocqueville
President 1913-1921 supported League of Nations proposed Fourteen Points post-war peace plan
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
JFK
Woodrow Wilson
President from 1945-1953 used atomic weapons on Japan to end WWII
FDR
Harry Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President from 1993-2001 NAFTA/ Balanced federal budget/
Bill Clinton
Harry S. Truman
George W. Bush
Teddy Roosevelt
Clergyman, activist, & leader of Civil Rights Movement non-violence approach
Martin Luther King Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Malcolm X
Omar Bradley
President 1921-1923 called for a "Return to Normalcy" associated with scandal Teapot Dome
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
President from 1969-1974 Detente- Watergate- resigned from office /impeachment
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Richard Nixon
Warren G. Harding
President 1961-1963 supported Space Race avoided nuclear showdown-Cuban Missile Crisis
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conservative activist -Campaigned against Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafy
Barbara Bush
Hillary Clinton
Betty Friedan
Leader in Women's Liberation Movement organized NOW (National Organization of Women) wrote the Feminine Mystique
Phyllis Schlafy
Betty Friedan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jackie Kennedy
1st African American to be elected President appointed first Latin Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jesse Jackson
Barack Obama
Malcolm X
Leader of Chicano Movement organized farm workers wanted to eliminate racism against Mexican -Americans
Dolores Huerta
Hector P. Garcia
Sonia Sotomayor
Cesar Chavez
Republican Senator that accused Americans of being communists "Witch-Hunt"
George Marshall
John J. Pershing
Joseph McCarthy
Hector P. Garcia
President that coined the term "Big Stick Diplomacy" trust buster/ Panama Canal/ conservationist
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
President 1933-1945 provided American people with hope during Great Depression/ also served during WWII placed Japanese Americans in camps
JFK
FDR
Hoover
Eisenhower
Named Commander of American Expeditionary Force during WWI led forces at Battle of Argonne Forest
John J. Pershing
George Marshall
George S. Patton
Chester W. Nimitz
First Lady that inspired millions during the Great Depression and was instrumental in Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jackie Kennedy
Jane Addams
Oprah
Army Chief of Staff that created the Marshall Plan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George S. Patton
George Marshall
Joseph White
First female Supreme Court Justice appointed by Ronald Reagan -conservative
Sonia Sotomayor
Hillary Clinton
Sandra Day O'Connor
Betty Friedan
President associated with 9/11 and vowed to fight the War on Terror
George H. W. Bush
Obama
George W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
First Latin Supreme Court Justice appointed by Obama
Dolores Huerta
Lesley Martinez
Janice Morales
Sonia Sotomayor
President that promoted peace when in 1978 agreement between Israel and Egypt (Camp David Accords)
Richard Nixon
JFK
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
President associated with detente easing tensions with the Soviet Union
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
MLK
JFK
She was a social activist that helped women in minorities in Chicago during the Progressive Era
Jane Addams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jane Fonda
Francis Willard
An entrepreneur that promoted philanthropy Gospel of Wealth (business in steel)
Oprah Winfrey
Sam Walton
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneur -journalist- television mogul that helped Obama become president 2008
Hillary Clinton
Kim Karadasian
Oprah Winfrey
Jance Addams
President associated with the escalation of troops in Vietnam 1964
JFK
Truman
LBJ
FDR
