Social Studies - People Flashcards
An American novelist, journalist, and social activist. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain world wide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
Jack London
A Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach, and innovator.
James Naismith
Founded Hull House, a place for the peer and to get help, settlement house
Jane Addams
President of the Confederacy 1801-1865
Jefferson Davis
Education Reformer
John Dewey
Wrote military march music
John Philips Sousa
Architect
“father of skyscrapers”
“father of modernism”
Louis Sullivan
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Italy nun who worked with poor NYC
St. Mother Cabrini
Wrote ragtime music
Scott Joplin
First president that women could vote for
Warren G. Harding
President assassinated in Buffalo
William McKinley
President who became Supreme Court Justice
William Howard Taft
WWI President, 14 Points, League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Last desperate attempt to win at Gettysburg by South (failed)
Picket’s Charge
The President during Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
First catholic to run for president, lost 1928
Al Smith
Suffragists, finally able to get women’s right to vote
Alice Paul
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty
Emma Lazarus
WCTU, anti-booze leader
Frances Willard
Elected to four terms, New Deal, WW2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Union General, total war, siege of Atlanta, March to the Sea
General Sherman
Union General ran for President against Lincoln 1864 (lost)
George McClellan
