WorksheetsWho's Who in US History - STAAR EOC Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
*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"
Malcolm X
W.E.B. DuBois
Stokely Carmichael
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
*Responsible for taking Hawaii for the US
*Owned sugar plantations
*Became the president of Hawaii after overthrowing Queen Liliuokalani
Alfred Thayer Mahan
William Seward
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sanford Dole
*First African American woman to be elected to Congress
Betty Friedan
Phyllis Schlafly
Shirley Chisholm
Hillary Clinton
*Conservative woman who led the Stop-ERA movement
*Helped prevent the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Betty Friedan
Phyllis Schlafly
Shirley Chisholm
Hillary Clinton
*Sat on a whites' only train car in 1892 to challenge segregation in court
*The result was that segregation was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1896
Sanford Dole
Rosa Parks
Homer Plessy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
*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
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
George H.W. Bush
William (Bill) Clinton
*Racist segregationist governor of Alabama
*Supported the use of violence (water hoses, dogs, etc) against Dr. King and other peaceful protesters
Dwight Eisenhower
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Thurgood Marshall
*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
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
*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
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
*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
Harriet Tubman
Ida B. Wells
Rosa Parks
Shirley Chisholm
*Received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Vietnam War
Alvin York
Vernon Baker
Roy Benavidez
John J. Pershing
*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
Cesar Chavez
Roy Benavidez
Malcom X
Betty Friedan
*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
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Rosa Parks
Nancy Reagan
*"Share our wealth" idea during the Great Depression
Warren Harding
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Huey Long
*Leader of Nazi Germany
*Responsible for World War II and the Holocaust
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
*Muckraker who wrote the book The Jungle
*His work led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
Henry Cabot Lodge
Boss Tweed
Langston Hughes
Upton Sinclair
*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
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
*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
Alvin York
Vernon Baker
Roy Benavidez
Douglas MacArthur
*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
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
*Led the movement for women's suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Betty Friedan
Harriet Tubman
Eleanor Roosevelt
