William McKinley was the 25th President. . He was the last president to serve in the 19th century and the first to serve in the 20th. . McKinley launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the pretext of Spanish atrocities in Cuba
.
William Jennings Bryan was a nominee for President in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st Secretary of STate under President Wilson. He was a critic of banks and railroads, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, an opponent of Darwinism., Because he beleived in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner."
Edwin Drake . He grew up on family farms around New York State before leaving home at the age of 19. He spent the early parts of his life working the railways around New Haven,
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph the motion picture camera the and a long-lasting, practical electric light
bulb. His nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
Christopher Sholes was an American inventor
who invented the first typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, and engineer who is credited with inventing the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife were deaf.. His research on hearing and speech led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually ended up with Bell being awarded the first patent for the telephone in 1876.
George Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car and for violently suppressing striking workers.
William Vanderbilt was an American businessman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family
Jay Gould was an American finiancierwho became a leading American railroad developer.
Cyrus Fields Born in 1819, Cyrus West Field began work at age fifteen as an office boy for A. T. Stewart & Co., New York City's first department store.
Andrew Carnegie U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland
John D. Rockefeller 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
J.P. Morgan 1867–1943, U.S. financier
Samuel Gompers was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American Labor History Gompers founded the American Foundation Labor, and served as the AFL's president . During WWI Gompers and the AFL worked with the government to avoid strikes and boost morale, while raising wage rates and expanding membership
Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union, as well as candidate for President of the United States. Later he was a presidential candidate as a member of the Socialist
Party of America.
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common anscetors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
William Haywood was an English architect and also designed in stained glass, wrought iron and cast lead.
Mary Harris Jones "Mother" Jones was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and co-founded the Industrial Workers of America. Mary Jones became largely affiliated with the United Mine Works. With the UMW, she frequently led strikers in picketing and encouraged the striking workers to stay on strike when the management brought in strike-breakers and militias. She was active as an organizer and educator in strikes throughout the country. As a union
organizer, she was know for organizing the wives and children of striking workers in demonstrations on their behalf. She became known as "the most dangerous woman in America.
Jane Addams In 1889 she and her college friend, Ellen
Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Il, the first settlement house in the United States. Jane and Ellen were the first two occupants of the house, which would later become the residence of about 25 women. Hull house provided social services and cultural events for the neighborhood, The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of various European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago. In 1915, she became involved in the Woman's Peace Party. During her travels, she would spend time meeting with a wide variety of diplomats and civic leaders and reiterating her Victorian belief in women's special mission to preserve peace. Recognition of these efforts came with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Addams in 1931.
Boss Tweed or William Magear Tweed known as"Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall. Tweed was the third-largest landowner in NYC, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. Tweed was elected to the House of Representatives. He was elected to the New
York State Senate. Tweed was convicted for billions of dollars from NYC taxpayers through political corruption. He died in jail.
James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield was the 20th President.. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration.. Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the United States Armu and as a member of the House
of Representatives
Chester Arthur Chester Alan Arthur served as the 21st President. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer. Before entering elected politics he was the collector of NYC, a position to which he was appointed by President.
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24 President. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, and is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Cleveland believed in honesty, independence, integrity, he opposed taxes, and inflationary policies. As a reformer he also worked against corruption, and patronage.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President. At the age of 21 he became a prominent state politician. During the American Civil WAr Harrison served as a Brigadier
General. He also supervised the admittance of six states into the Union.
Rutherford B. Hays was an American
politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President. Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote. He ordered federal troops to suppress The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and he ended the Reconstruction.
Louis Sullivan was an American Architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper
.
Fredrick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture. Frederick was famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC
George Eastman helped to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film . He was an American inventor and philanthropist, who played a leading role in transforming photography from an expensive hobby into an inexpensive and popular hobby. He was also one of the outstanding philanthropists of his time, donating more than $75 million to various projects.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplan and making the first controlled [[wiki/Flight / Mechanical_flight|human ]]
flight, on December 17, 1903.
Booker T. Washington was an American political leader, educator, and author. He was the dominant figure in the African
American community in the United States . He represented the last generation of black leaders born in slavery.
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American civil
rights activist, sociologist, historian, author and editor.
Ida B. Wells was an African American Journalist and newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States and was also active in the women’s rights movement and the women’
s sufferage movement
Joseph Pulitzer was a publisher best known for establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism along with William
Randolph Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Anderson Hearst. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of The San Franciso Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a circulation war with Joseph Pulitsers New york World which led to the creation of yellow journalism — sensationalized stories that may not be completely true. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. He was elected twice as to the House
of Representatives.
Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemenswell-known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huck Finn and The
Adventures of Tom Saywer
F.W. Woolworth was the founder of
F.W. Woolworth, an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise direct from manufacturers and fixing prices on items, rather than haggling.
.
J.C.Penney James Cash Penney was business and entrepreneur In 1902, he founded the J.
C. Penney stores.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight hour work days, and children’s rights is widely regarded today.
Robert La Follette senator, congressman, governor of Wisconsin and candidate for President
Carry Nation was a member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre Prohibition American. She is particularly noted for promoting her views through vandalism Nation would enter an alcohol-serving establishment and attack the bar with a hatchet
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American Civil Rights leader in the women’s rights movement to introduce women’
s sufferage in the US.
Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. who He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckracking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat
Inspection Act.
Theodore was the 26th President He is well remembered for his energetic persona, range of interests and achievements, and his "cowboy" image. he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt was an unhealthy child suffering from asthma who stayed at home studying natural history. Roosevelt gained fame for fighting police corruption. He was effectively running the US Navy when the Spanish American War broke out; he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders. After the war, he returned to New York and was elected Govenor
; and eventually Vice President.
John Muir was an American Naturalist and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. . His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra
Club which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States.
Ida Tarbell was an American teacher author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrackers
" of the progressive area, work known in modern times as investigative journalism."
Lincoln Steffins was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckracking
William Howard Taft was the 27th President and later the 10th Chief Justice. He is the only person to have served in both offices.
Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the Govenor of Pennsylvania/
He was a Republican. Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United. States.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President.. In his first term, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass the Federal
Trade Commission, Federal Reserve Act. America's first-ever federal progressive income tax.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman’s Suffrage Movement twice; her first term was from Her second term with the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., and peaked in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Industrial Revolution/ United States
William McKinley was the 25th President. . He was the last president to serve in the 19th century and the first to serve in the 20th. . McKinley launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the pretext of Spanish atrocities in Cuba
.
William Jennings Bryan was a nominee for
President in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st Secretary of STate under President Wilson. He was a critic of banks and railroads, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, an opponent of Darwinism., Because he beleived in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner."
Edwin Drake . He grew up on family farms around New York State before leaving home at the age of 19. He spent the early parts of his life working the railways around New Haven,
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph the motion picture camera the and a long-lasting, practical electric light
bulb. His nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
Christopher Sholes was an American
inventor
who invented the first typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, and engineer who is credited with inventing the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife were deaf.. His research on hearing and speech led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually ended up with Bell being awarded the first
patent for the telephone in 1876.
George Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car and for violently suppressing striking workers.
William Vanderbilt was an American businessman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads.
Jay Gould was an American finiancierwho became a leading American railroad developer.
Cyrus Fields Born in 1819, Cyrus West Field began work at age fifteen as an office boy for A. T. Stewart & Co., New York City's first department store.
Andrew Carnegie U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland
John D. Rockefeller 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
J.P. Morgan 1867–1943, U.S. financier
Samuel Gompers was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American Labor History Gompers founded the American Foundation Labor, and served as the AFL's president . During WWI Gompers and the AFL worked with the government to avoid strikes and boost morale, while raising wage rates and expanding membership
Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union, as well as candidate for President of the United States. Later he was a presidential candidate as a member of the Socialist
Party of America.
Charles Darwin was an
English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common anscetors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
William Haywood was an English architect and also designed in stained glass, wrought iron and cast lead.
Mary Harris Jones "Mother" Jones was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and co-founded the Industrial Workers of America. Mary Jones became largely affiliated with the United Mine Works. With the UMW, she frequently led strikers in picketing and encouraged the striking workers to stay on strike when the management brought in strike-breakers and militias. She was active as an organizer and educator in strikes throughout the country. As a union
organizer, she was know for organizing the wives and children of striking workers in demonstrations on their behalf. She became known as "the most dangerous woman in America.
Jane Addams In 1889 she and her college friend,
Ellen
Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Il, the first settlement house in the United States. Jane and Ellen were the first two occupants of the house, which would later become the residence of about 25 women. Hull house provided social services and cultural events for the neighborhood, The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of various European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago. In 1915, she became involved in the Woman's Peace Party. During her travels, she would spend time meeting with a wide variety of diplomats and civic leaders and reiterating her Victorian belief in women's special mission to preserve peace. Recognition of these efforts came with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Addams in 1931.
Boss Tweed or William Magear Tweed known as"Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most famous for his leadership of
Tammany Hall. Tweed was the third-largest landowner in NYC, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. Tweed was elected to the House of Representatives. He was elected to the New
York State Senate. Tweed was convicted for billions of dollars from NYC taxpayers through political corruption. He died in jail.
James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield was the
20th President.. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration.. Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the United States Armu and as a member of the House
of Representatives
Chester Arthur Chester Alan Arthur served as the
21st President. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer. Before entering elected politics he was the collector of NYC, a position to which he was appointed by President.
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24 President. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, and is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Cleveland believed in honesty, independence, integrity, he opposed taxes, and inflationary policies. As a reformer he also worked against corruption, and patronage.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President. At the age of 21 he became a prominent state politician. During the American Civil WAr Harrison served as a Brigadier
General. He also supervised the admittance of six states into the Union.
Rutherford B. Hays was an
American
politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President. Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote. He ordered federal troops to suppress The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and he ended the Reconstruction.
Louis Sullivan was an
American Architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper
.
Fredrick Law Olmsted was an
American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture. Frederick was famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC
George Eastman helped to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film . He was an American inventor and philanthropist, who played a leading role in transforming photography from an expensive hobby into an inexpensive and popular hobby. He was also one of the outstanding philanthropists of his time, donating more than $75 million to various projects.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplan and making the first controlled [[wiki/Flight / Mechanical_flight|human ]]
flight, on December 17, 1903.
Booker T. Washington was an
American political leader, educator, and author. He was the dominant figure in the African
American community in the United States . He represented the last generation of black leaders born in slavery.
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American
civil
rights activist, sociologist, historian, author and editor.
Ida B. Wells was an African American Journalist and newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States and was also active in the
women’s rights movement and the women’
s sufferage movement
Joseph Pulitzer was a publisher best known for establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism along with
William
Randolph Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Anderson Hearst. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of
The San Franciso Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a circulation war with Joseph Pulitsers New york World which led to the creation of yellow journalism — sensationalized stories that may not be completely true. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. He was elected twice as to the House
of Representatives.
Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemenswell-known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huck Finn and
The
Adventures of Tom Saywer
F.W. Woolworth was the founder of
F.W. Woolworth, an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise direct from manufacturers and fixing prices on items, rather than haggling.
.
J.C.Penney James Cash Penney was business and
entrepreneur In 1902, he founded the J.
C. Penney stores.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer from
Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight hour work days, and children’s rights is widely regarded today.
Robert La Follette senator, congressman, governor of Wisconsin and candidate for President
Carry Nation was a member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre Prohibition American. She is particularly noted for promoting her views through vandalism Nation would enter an alcohol-serving establishment and attack the bar with a hatchet
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American Civil Rights leader in the women’s rights movement to introduce women’
s sufferage in the US.
Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning
American author. who He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckracking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat
Inspection Act.
Theodore was the 26th President He is well remembered for his energetic persona, range of interests and achievements, and his "cowboy" image. he held offices at the
municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt was an unhealthy child suffering from asthma who stayed at home studying natural history. Roosevelt gained fame for fighting police corruption. He was effectively running the US Navy when the Spanish American War broke out; he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders. After the war, he returned to New York and was elected Govenor
; and eventually Vice President.
John Muir was an American Naturalist and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. . His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The
Sierra
Club which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States.
Ida Tarbell was an American
teacher author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrackers
" of the progressive area, work known in modern times as investigative journalism."
Lincoln Steffins was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called
muckracking
William Howard Taft was the 27th President and later the 10th Chief Justice. He is the only person to have served in both offices.
Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the Govenor of Pennsylvania/
He was a Republican. Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United. States.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President.. In his first term, Wilson persuaded a Democratic
Congress to pass the Federal
Trade Commission, Federal Reserve Act. America's first-ever federal progressive income tax.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the
National American Woman’s Suffrage Movement twice; her first term was from Her second term with the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., and peaked in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution