People in the USII SOL

Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Jane Addams

Lighting and mechanical uses of electricity Telephone services Founded Hull House – Efforts

to solve immigration problems

Chief Joseph Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

Indian policies and war

Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; Accepted separate

but equal

Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African

Americans

John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford

Captain of Industry - Oil Captain of Industry - SteelCaptain of Industry –

Automobile, use of the assembly line

People in the USII SOL

Susan B. Anthony Woodrow Wilson Guglielmo Marconi

Worked for woman’s suffrage

(President) prepared a peace plan that called for the

formation of the League of Nations at the end of WWI, a peace keeping organization

Played a role in the development of the radio

Wright Brothers David Sarnoff Georgia O’Keefe

Inventor of the airplanePlayed a role in the development of the broadcast industry

An artist known for urban scenes and, later, paintings

of the southwest

F. Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck Aaron Copland

Novelist who wrote about the jazz age of the 1920’s

A novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant

workers during the 1930’s

Composer who wrote uniquely American music

People in the USII SOL

George Gershwin Jacob Lawrence Langston Hughes

Composer who wrote uniquely American music

African American painter during the Harlem

Renaissance who chronicled the experiences of the Great

Migration North

Poet during the Harlem Renaissance who combined the experiences of African

American cultural roots

Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith

African American jazz composer during the Harlem

Renaissance

African American jazz composer during the Harlem

Renaissance

African American blues singer during the Harlem

Renaissance

Franklin D. Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini

Used government programs to help the nation recover from the Great Depression (New

Deal) Allied Leader

Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Germany)

Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Italy)

People in the USII SOL

Hideki Tojo Harry S. Truman Winston Churchill

Fascist dictator, Axis Powers (Japan)

(United States) Allied Leader after FDR (Great Britain) Allied Leader

Joseph Stalin Rosie the Riveter George C Marshall

(Soviet Union) Allied Leader

Symbol of thousands of American women who took jobs in defense plants during

WWII

Instituted plan to rebuild Europe (the Marshall Plan),

which provided massive financial aid to rebuild

European economies and prevent the spread of

communism

Eleanor Roosevelt Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks

Played a role in expanding women’s rights

Passive resistance against segregated facilities; “I have a

dream…” SpeechMontgomery bus boycott

People in the USII SOL

Charles Drew J. Robert Oppenheimer Frank Lloyd WrightRepresentative Citizen in Science for medicine and

plasma

Representative Citizen in Science for Physics,

Manhatten Project team

Representative Citizen in Culture for Architecture

Martha Graham Henry Louis Gates Maya Angelou

Representative Citizen in Culture for dance

Representative Citizen in Academics for history

Representative Citizen in Academics for Literature

Bill Gates Ray Kroc

Representative Citizen in Economics for computer technology and Microsoft

Representative Citizen in Economics for franchising,

McDonalds