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WorksheetsUS History STAAR EOC Significant Historical individuals #1
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 32mins
•President from 1913-1921 •Advocate for women’s suffrage •President during WWI •Proposed Fourteen Points as a basis for post-war peace •Supported U.S. membership in League of Nations; U.S. failed to join
•President from 1945-1953•Used atomic weapons against Japan to bring WWII to an end •Assisted in the founding of the United Nations •Executed policy to contain communism
•Conservative activist •Founder of Eagle Forum – opposes modern feminism •Campaigned against Equal Rights Amendment
•President from 1932-1945 (elected to 4 terms) •Pulled country out of Great Depression with New Deal •Declared war on Japan after bombing of Pearl Harbor – U.S.entered WWII •Worked closely with Winston Churchill during WWII
•Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person
•Her actions led to Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) which led to integrated buses and thrust her into the national spotlight
•President from 1981-1989 •Policy to reduce taxes & regulations to encourage business activity •Believed you achieved peace by being prepared for war, known as “Peace Through Strength” •His presidency saw the beginnings of the end of the Cold War
•Named Commander of American Expeditionary Force (AEF) during WWI by Woodrow Wilson •Insisted that U.S. soldiers fight as a unit and not be spread throughout French forces •Led forces at Battle of Argonne Forest
•Commander of U.S. army in the Pacific during WWII •Commander of U.S. forces in Korean Conflict •Disagreement with Truman over use of nuclear weapons in North Korea and China •Public criticism of Truman led to his removal
Who was:
•Mexican American physician & surgeon during WWII •Human rights advocate and founder of American G.I. Forum •First Mexican American to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights •Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom (highest civilian honor) in 1984
Cesar Chavez
Hector Garcia
Lionel Sosa
Pancho Villa
•Leader of Chicano Movement to eliminate racism against Mexican Americans •Organized farm workers in California •Demanded increased wages and better working conditions •Emphasized non-violent methods such as boycotts, strikes, hunger fasts
Founded Hull House in Chicago to help poor immigrants, part of social reform movements
Susan B. Anthony
Jane Addams
Rosa Parks
Sandra Day O'Connor
Radical group in the 1960s who advocated armed self-defense and revolution to end black oppression. More militant than MLK and other civil rights leaders but also established daycare centers, medical clinics, etc.
SCLC
CORE
NAACP
Black Panthers
Commanded 1st US Army during D-Day Invasion, lead liberation of Paris, won the Battle of the Bulge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
Omar Bradley
George Patton
Only first lady to be elected to a position in the US government after being First Lady. Came the closest to winning a presidential nomination of any woman in
history. Served as Secretary of State under President Obama.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sonia Sotomayor
Hillary Clinton
Susan B. Anthony
Accumulated huge wealthy in the railroad and steel industry, used the Bessemer process to create steel. Developed “Gospel of Wealth” doctrine in which he believed it was the duty of the wealthy to use their money to improve the conditions for all.
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
“Father of Naval Aviation” and “Founder of the American Aircraft Industry”
Wright Brothers
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
Vernon Baker
French political thinker and historian who came to the US to study our political and social nature. Identified 5 characteristics that sets Americans apart: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, laissez-faire.
Alexis de Tocqueville
John Jay
John Peter Muhlenberg
Benjamin Rush
Negotiated the annexation of Hawaii to the US in 1898. Served as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Hawaii after Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown.
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Sanford Dole
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
34th President. Prior to Presidency, served in WWII as commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Promoted to General after D Day. Created the Interstate Highway System as President.
Omar Bradley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Governor of Arkansas who supported segregation. Used Arkansas National Guard to prevent students from integrating Little Rock High School. President Eisenhower sent army troops to enforce court ordered desegregation and to protect the first 9 African American students.
Lester Maddox
George Wallace
Orval Faubus
Barry Goldwater
Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.
Flying Tigers
Tuskegee Airmen
Navajo Code Talkers
Dough Boys
publisher, journalist, and Black Nationalist; founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and led a back to Africa movement
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who was:
•President from 1993-2001 (2 terms) •Balanced federal budget •Cut spending, raised taxes on rich and closed military bases •Supported NAFTA – gradually phased out tariffs stood against human rights abuse in Kosovo and China •Was impeached but not convicted or removed from office
President George Bush
President Richard Nixon
President Jimmy Carter
President Bill Clinton
Who was:
•A senator who conducted hearings to identify Communists in the 1950s •Started the second red scare
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
John Pershing
•President from 1961-1963 •Supported Space Race – John Glenn orbited earth •Embarrassed by Bay of Pigs Invasion (unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro) •Created Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp – programs to promote progress in under-developed countries to discourage the spread of communism •Avoided nuclear showdown – Cuban Missile Crisis
•President from 1969-1974 •Reopened relations with Red China (1972) •Introduced détente with Soviet Union (relaxing of tension and de-escalating arms race) •Resigned office to avoid impeachment after Watergate scandal
•Appointed to Supreme Court in 1981 •First female Justice •Established her voice as a swing vote between conservatives and liberals
•Clergyman, activist & leader in the Civil Rights Movement •Used nonviolent civil disobedience (influenced by Gandhi) •Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) •Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) •March on Washington (1963)
•Supreme commander of D-Day & allied invasion of Europe in WWII •President from 1953-1961 (2 terms) •Created the Interstate Highway System in 1956 •Extended U.S. containment of communism policy to Middle East
•Army Chief of Staff and advisor to Roosevelt during WWII •Churchill referred to him as the “organizer of victory” •Created a plan designed to rebuild the economies and spirits of Europe •Served as Truman’s Secretary of State
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 : 5 important American values were: 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
President from 1969-1974 Detente- Watergate- resigned from office just before 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
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
President that coined the term "Big Stick Diplomacy" trust buster/ Panama Canal/ conservationist
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Army Chief of Staff that created the Marshall Plan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George S. Patton
George Marshall
Joseph White
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
Entrepreneur -journalist- television mogul that helped Obama become president 2008
Hillary Clinton
Kim Karadasian
Oprah Winfrey
Jance Addams
