*Wanted civil rights immediately in the early 1900s

*Co-founded the NAACP

*Argued for economic skills and vocational education for African Americans in the late 1800s

*Believed that civil rights would come gradually

*Started the Tuskegee Institute

*Led the anti-lynching campaign

*Was an advocate for full and immediate equality in the late 1800s and early 1900s

*Middle-class woman who engaged in social work

*Opened the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago

*Focused on helping the urban poor and helping immigrants assimilate to American life

*Democrat who led the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City

*Known for his corruption but also for helping new immigrants adjust to life in America

*Muckraker who wrote the book The Jungle

*His work led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act

*"Trust-buster" president

*His program was the Square Deal

*He is known for promoting the National Park System

*He had the Big Stick Policy and arranged to get the Panama Canal

*Advocated for a strong navy

*Was an expansionist

*Responsible for taking Hawaii for the US

*Owned sugar plantations

*Became the president of Hawaii after overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani

*Led the movement for women's suffrage

*President during World War I

*Famous for the Fourteen Points

*Known for his moral diplomacy

*President in the early 1920s

*Known for his campaign slogan "Return to Normalcy"

*Led a corrupt government (Teapot Dome Scandal)

*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in World War I

*Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I

*Trained inexperienced troops for the war

*Created the assembly line

*Made mass produced cars more affordable

*Owned a steel monopoly

*Is known as a philanthropist

*Owned an oil monopoly/trust

*Forced the United Negro Improvement Association

*Advocated for African Americans to go back to Africa to create a modern society there

*Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

*Wrote about the struggles of being black in America

*President during the stock market crash

*Blamed for the Great Depression

*"Share our wealth" idea during the Great Depression

*President during the Great Depression and World War II

*Only president to be elected four times

*His New Deal was an attempt to fix the Great Depression

*First Lady during the Great Depression and World War II

*Was the first First Lady to take an active role in leading programs to help women and children

*Was the Secretary of Labor during the Great Depression

*Was the first woman to lead an Executive Branch department and sit on the president's cabinet

*Leader of Nazi Germany

*Responsible for World War II and the Holocaust

*Led the Soviet Union during World War II

*Believed in spreading communism around the world

*Helped start the Cold War

*Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II and the early Cold War

*Used the phrase "iron curtain" for the first time to talk about the Cold War

*Commander of the US Army in Europe during World War II

*President from 1953 until 1961

*Signed the Interstate Highway Act

*Sent federal troops to escort the "Little Rock Nine" to their classes during the civil rights movement

*Commander of the US Army in the Pacific theater during World War II

*Led the US Army and the United Nations forces in the Korean War until President Eisenhower fired him

*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in World War II

*The only living African American to receive the Medal for World War II

*President at the end of World War II and during most of the Korean War

*Made the decision to use the atomic bombs against Japan

*Desegregated the armed forces with Executive Order 9981

*President from 1961 to 1963

*Youngest elected president and first Catholic president

*Led the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis

*Asked Congress to pass a Civil Rights bill but was assassinated in Dallas before it passed

*President after John F. Kennedy was assassinated

*Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

*His "Great Society" program began the system of welfare in America

*Was responsible for sending troops to Vietnam after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

*Leader of the civil rights movement beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott

*Believed in nonviolent civil disobedience

*Started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) civil rights group

*Famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

*Civil rights leader who was a member of the Nation of Islam

*Believed that it was okay to use violence to fight for civil rights

*After his assassination, his followers helped start the Black Panthers

*Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested

*This marked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the national civil rights movement

*Racist segregationist governor of Arkansas

*Refused to follow the Brown v. Board of Education decision

*Used National Guard troops to stop the "Little Rock Nine" from entering Little Rock Central High School

*Racist segregationist governor of Alabama

*Supported the use of violence (water hoses, dogs, etc) against Dr. King and other peaceful protesters

*Republican president who won the election of 1968

*Promised to withdraw troops from Vietnam but instead secretly ordered troops to invade Cambodia

*Started the process of establishing relations between the US and China

*Is best known for the Watergate Scandal in which he lied about spying on a political opponent - he resigned from office as a result

*Nixon's vice president who became president after Nixon resigned in 1974

*After he became president, he pardoned Nixon for the Watergate scandal

*As a result, he lost re-election in 1976

*Won the election of 1976 mostly because people did not support President Ford

*Was responsible for the Camp David Accords, which was the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arabic country (Egypt)

*Lost re-election in 1980

*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Vietnam War

*Led the United Farm Workers movement to get better conditions for migrant workers from Mexico

*Used nonviolent protests (a grape and lettuce boycott)

*Seen as the leader of the Chicano civil rights movement

*Woman who helped Cesar Chavez lead the United Farm Workers movement

*Popularized the phrase "Si, se puede!" for the movement

*Woman who wrote The Feminine Mystique

*Started the National Organization of Women

*Fought for the Equal Rights Amendment

*Conservative woman who led the Stop-ERA movement

*Helped prevent the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

*First African American woman to be elected to Congress

*Republican president from 1981 to 1989

*Known for cutting taxes and "trickle-down" economics (known as "Reaganomics")

*Credited for the fall of the Berlin Wall and for ending the Cold War because he was tough on the Soviet Union

*President from 1989 to 1993

*Known for the Persian Gulf War against Iraq (because Iraq invaded our ally, Kuwait)

*Promised not to raise taxes but ended up raising taxes, and the economy was bad, so he lost reelection

*President from 1993 until 2001

*Lied under oath about having an affair with a White House intern

*Was impeached but not removed from office for lying under oath - this shows how the public is getting more involved in a president's personal life

*First Lady during most of the 1990s

*Also served as a Senator from New York

*Was the Secretary of State under President Obama

*Was the first female presidential candidate for a major political party

*President from 2001 until 2009

*Was president during the attacks on 9/11

*Led the US into the War in Afghanistan (War on Terror) and the War in Iraq

*President during Hurricane Katrina and blamed for the government's slow response during that crisis

*President from 2009 until 2017

*First black president

*Responsible for the Affordable Care Act, which offers health insurance through a government marketplace

*Created Microsoft computers

*Made computers available to individuals in their homes

*Created Apple computers

*Made computers available to individuals in their homes

*Created Amazon.com

*Revolutionized online shopping and delivery