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