Unit 6: Important Figures

Question 1

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 1

President, didn’t really do much… PUT STUFF HERE IF YOU FIND IT

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 2

Born into a poor(ish) family, he lead the iron monopoly through vertical expansion, buying every step of the iron process, and wrote the “Gospel of Wealth” calling on the rich to improve society.

Question 3

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 3

Oil baron, used horizontal expansion and bought all the oil companies that became part of the trust. Monopolized 90 percent of oil in America.

Question 4

Thomas Edison

Answer 4

Inventor, he made a huge number of patents, contributing to the age of invention and forward progress in technology into a new era.

Question 5

Samuel Gompers

Answer 5

Leader of the union “American Federation of Labor,” he worked for craft unions and skilled labor. hated socialists even though he lead a union, because his people weren’t freeloaders or “scabs.”

Question 6

Horatio Alger

Answer 6

Supporter of Gospel of Wealth, famous author in which every book talked about a boy who worked hard, befriended a old rich dude, and got a lot of money.

Question 7

Charles Darwin

Answer 7

Scientist, created the idea of Darwinism and survival of the fittest, important because his ideas would lead to similar economic ideas in which the poor will always be poor.

Question 8

Jacob S. Coxey

Answer 8

Marched a group of people to their arrest for trespassing, what a dingus.

Question 9

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 9

Represented by the Cowardly Lion in the wizard of Oz, gave a lot of speeches, the first senator of a third party that got over a million votes.

Question 10

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 10

Women’s rights (aka not important)

Question 11

Grover Cleveland

Answer 11

President, also don’t know what he did.

Question 12

Jay Gould

Answer 12

Archetypical Robber-Baron, made his way in the world by scamming and working with contacts, worked with Fisk to corner the gold market and subsequently made “Black Friday”

Question 13

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 13

Inventor of the telephone, which exploded in popularity after around 1920-30. Pretty much his thing.

Question 14

Terence V. Powderly

Answer 14

Head of the Knights of Labor, he lead the more open and socialist in nature union, ended up leading his union into the ground.

Question 15

Jane Addams

Answer 15

Women’s rights movement (aka not important)

Question 16

Jacob Riis

Answer 16

Muckraker, he uncovered a lot about poor living conditions and bad economic stuff happening during the times.

Question 17

Henry George

Answer 17

Created Georgism, a tax system where it was based on how much people own in land, and was a system that would be fairer to everyone.

Question 18

Joseph F. Glidden

Answer 18

Made barbed wire, killed off cattle drives, and subsequently the cowboys, requiescat en pace.

Question 19

Mother Jones

Answer 19

Avid labor activist, major journalist of the time, and wrote a lot about of the issues of the time.

Question 20

James A. Garfield

Answer 20

President had big goals, but was shot in the back by crazy lawyer. Replaced by Chester A. Arthur

Question 21

“Boss” Tweed

Answer 21

Corrupt New York politician, convicted of stealing huge sums of money from new york taxpayers, huge part of the state of New York at the time.

Question 22

J Pierpont Morgan

Answer 22

Made money by being good with money. In all deals where the economics were at stake, he would be a meidator and handle money. Described as pretty much the pied piper.

Question 23

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 23

Pretty much waldo, popping up wherever he damn well pleases, owned all the steamboats and presumabely the parallel railroad line, need confirmation on that.

Question 24

Booker T. Washington

Answer 24

Civil rights activist, public speaker and famous orator in that respect, talked about, you know, civil rights, that was his thing man…

Question 25

Mark Twain

Answer 25

First “American Author” avid anti-slave supporter and wrote Huckleberry Finn along with many firsts for American literature that would later be the cornerstones in what we consider “American”

Question 26

Helen Hunt Jackson

Answer 26

Wrote a century of dishonor, the only thing ever sympathetic to Native Americans. No one cared until that whole “Humanitarian” stuff became a thing.

Question 27

William McKinley

Answer 27

25th president and helped maintain a nation of gold standards, promoted tariffs to support business, and supportive of industries, shot in the back by an anarchist. Replaced by Theodore Roosevelt.

Question 28

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 28

Socialist candidate for president and a Union leader (IWW), made a good way into politics even with his socialist platform.