EOC key People

Question 1

Founded Hull house to help immigrants adapt to life in America

Answer 1

Jane Addams

Question 2

Represented the prosecution (religious side) of the Scopes Trial

Answer 2

William Jennings Bryan

Question 3

Represented the defense (Scopes/evolution side) in the Scopes Trial

Answer 3

Clarence Darrow

Question 4

Back to Africa, civil rights extremist

Answer 4

Marcus Garvey

Question 5

Became President during Great Depression and saved the country with The New Deal. Also served almost 4 terms because the country was at war

Answer 5

FDR/Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 6

Former slave and newspaper editor from TN

Answer 6

Randolph Miller

Question 7

Was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the US

Answer 7

Eugene Debs

Question 8

Assassinated President Grover Cleveland because he was promised a job in the administration but did not get one

Answer 8

Charles Guiteau

Question 9

Civil war hero, became president during reconstruction, wanted to get African Americans the right to vote and get south to desegregate

Answer 9

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 10

founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization’s president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924

Answer 10

Samuel Gompers

Question 11

Political boss of Tammany Hall/New York city. Very corrupt used bribes to buy votes

Answer 11

Boss Tweed

Question 12

Created cartoons about Boss Tweed that eventually got Tweed arrested Woodrow Wilson

Answer 12

Thomas Nast

Question 13

was a prominent activist in The for women voting rights in the US from TN President of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, helped get the 19th Amendment passed

Answer 13

Anne Dallas Dudley

Question 14

Established the direct primary, initiative, referendum and recall in Wisconsin

Answer 14

Robert LaFollette

Question 15

The History of the Standard Oil Co. (Rockerfeller’s ruthless methods to ruin his competitors)

Answer 15

Ida Tarbell

Question 16

Women’s rights activists that played important role in suffrage (voting rights); arrested for voting in the 1872 election

Answer 16

Susan B Anthony

Question 17

Co-founder of the NAACP, anti-lynching crusader, reporter in Memphis, TN

Answer 17

Ida B Wells

Question 18

Leader of the anti-suffrage movement in TN during the 1920 fight for ratification of the 19th Amendment

Answer 18

Josephine Pearson

Question 19

Leader of the exodusters

Answer 19

Ben “Pap” Singleton

Question 20

The Shame of the Cities (Political Machines; City Government Coruption)

Answer 20

Lincoln Steffens

Question 21

Navy admiral and historian, imperialist/interventionalisf, thought America needed a strong Navy if it was going to be a global empire

Answer 21

Alfred T Mahan

Question 22

Tennessean, sought conscientious objector status - denied, killed 25 Germans, captured 133c knocked out several marching gun nests, Medal of Honor

Answer 22

Alvin York

Question 23

Railroad tycoon

Answer 23

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 24

Spanish American War Hero at Battle of San Juan Hill, President, called the trust buster, focused on conservation

Answer 24

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

Came after 1860, poor, no English, very difficult adaption

Answer 25

New Immigrants

Question 26

Wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES about poor living conditions of immigrants in tenements

Answer 26

Jacob Riis

Question 27

Steel Tycoon, US steel monopoly

Answer 27

Andrew Carnegie

Question 28

The assassination was the beginning of the end for the spoils system and the beginning of civil service reform. Led to Pendleton Act

Answer 28

Garfield

Question 29

Birth control activist, thought family life and women’s health would improve if mothers had fewer children — “family planning” planned parenthood

Answer 29

Margaret Sanger

Question 30

Senator, Imperialist/Interventionalist. Thought American need to expand its global empire. American exceptionalism

Answer 30

Albert Beveridge

Question 31

Communication expert, telephone

Answer 31

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 32

President during 1920s, blamed for the Great Depression, Hoovervilles, beloved the government should not intervene to help people - rugged individualism people can do it themselves

Answer 32

Herbert Hoover

Question 33

Muckracker that wrote THE JUNGLE about meatpacking industry and the filth and nasty ness of the meat plants

Answer 33

Upton Sinclair

Question 34

Cast final vote for women suffrage in Tennessee because his mother told him to

Answer 34

Harry Burn