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WorksheetsSignificant People in U.S. History
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
overthrown by American settlers- led to annexation of Hawaii
Chief Joseph
Henry Ford
Queen Liliuokalani
William Jennings Bryan
his Standard Oil Co. monopolized US oil refining industry
Henry Bessemer
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
George Dewey
Thomas Nast’s cartoons attacked his NYC Tammany Hall machine
William M. Tweed
Upton Sinclair
John Hay
Jacob Riis
Secty of State under McKinley- proposed Open Door Policy in China
Rutherford B. Hayes
John Hay
Thomas Edison
William H. Seward
founded Hull House- a community center for poor in Chicago
Susan B. Anthony
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
Jane Addams
inventions included phonograph, light bulb, “Wizard of Menlo Park”
Thomas Nast
Thomas Webber
Thomas Jones
Thomas Edison
campaigned for women’s rights- especially the right to vote
Jane Addams
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Frances Willard
book “How the Other Half Lives”- resulted in help for NYC poor
Jacob Riis
Ida B. Wells
Matthew C. Perry
Upton Sinclair
steelmaking monopoly- gave away millions- funded 2,800 libraries
Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
Morgan
Carnegie
muckraker who wrote “The Jungle”- exposing meat packing abuses
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Jane Addams
WEB DuBois
used assembly line to mass produce affordable Model T automobile
James A. Garfield
George Dewey
John Deere
Henry Ford
African-American educator and reformer- founded Tuskegee Institute
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair
George Wallace
made first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC
Abbott and Costello
Orville & Wilbur Wright
George Hand and William Foot
William & Walter Reed
“Cross of Gold” speech- free silver to help farmers, debtors
William M. Tweed
Alexander Graham Bell
William Jennings Bryan
John D. Rockefeller
killed by rejected office-seeker- bringing civil service reform
Grover Cleveland
James A. Garfield
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Johnson
