successfully used a steam engine to drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania

created first laboratory where he invented light bulb and the phonograph

figured out how to make electricity safer and less expensive as it was transmitted electricity over long distances (alternating current)

invented the telephone

was the first African-American to get a PHD. from Harvard and founded the Niagara Movement and

Former slave who believed African-Americans could gradually gain equality if they were given access to education and job skills

invented a process for purifying iron to make steel

invented the typewriter

a self-made industrialist who used vertical and horizontal integration to build U.S. Steel Company

a self-made industrialist in the railroad industry, worked with Rockefeller to monopolize the railroad industry

a banker who purchased successful businesses in order to create a powerful holding company

a self-made industrialist who founded the Standard Oil Company and used trusts to gain a monopoly

powerful business leader who built a factory for manufacturing sleeper cars and created a company town around the factory

led the Cigar Makers’ International Union to join with other craft unions to form the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

helped organize the United Mine Workers of America; exposed cruelties of child labor

opened first U.S. department store in Chicago that stressed personal service and paid close attention to women customers

developed the Kodak camera, which led to popular photography

built the first plane to fly successfully (in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina!)

owner of New York World, a newspaper that became champion of the poor because it used simple language that most people could read; journalism award was named for him ("The _________ Prize")

owner of the New York Journal who published exaggerated news stories to increase circulation (get more readers)

cartoonist who drew unpleasant pictures of Boss Tweed, eventually exposing him as a criminal

a powerful and corrupt politician in New York City who controlled a political machine called Tammany Hall