People from the Gilded Age Era
This man had a monopoly in the Steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This man from Fentress County, TN captured or killed 130 German soldiers and received the Medal of Honor in WWI.
Who was Alvin York?
This Tennessee Representative surprised everyone and changed his vote which allowed for the 19th amendment in the women's suffrage movement.
Who was Harry T. Burns?
This man became US President and came up with "The New Deal" plan to help Americans during his first 100 days of Presidency.
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt?
This man was known as a rockabilly musician from Memphis, TN.
Who was Elvis Presley?
This man turned the oil industry into a monopoly with his company, Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This President wanted to make the world "safe for democracy" during WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This woman was the President of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League and Vice-President of the National American Women's Suffragist Association.
Who was Anne Dallas Dudley?
This man was the dictator of Germany who gained popularity by promising jobs to the Nazis, but created racists laws against the Jews.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
On December 1, 1955, this woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and was fined $10 after her arrest.
Who was Rosa Parks?
This man invented the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
This man was killed by a Serbian nationalist from Bosnia at the beginning of WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These were two famous Jazz Musicians from Memphis, TN.
Who were Bessie Smith and W.C. Handy?
This woman became a poster icon encouraging women to join the workforce while men were fighting over in Europe.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
This President negotiated with the USSR during the nuclear missile crisis to get them to remove their missiles in Cuba.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This man founded the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
This US President was in charge of the Food Administration during WWI and made a plan to help with food shortages in Europe.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This man was considered one of the most popular Jazz artists of the 1920s.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This woman encouraged her husband who was President to create a women's auxiliary forces unit during WWII.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
As a graduate of Fisk University, this woman became a national leader for many Civil Rights Movements, including the Nashville Sit-In movement.
Who was Diane Nash?
This man invented the Model T after working for Thomas Edison.
Who was Henry Ford?
This man was the leader of the Expeditionary Forces, AKA Doughboys.
Who was John J Perishing?
This group was the first group inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and they are known as the first family of Country Music.
Who was the Carter Family?
This woman from Tennessee became a part of the Women's Auxillary Squadron.
Who was Cornelia Fort?
This was the lawyer for Oliver Brown in the Brown vs. Board of Education court case and later became a Supreme Court Justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?