Presidents
He negotiated the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
John F. Kennedy
Her refusal to sit in the "colored only" section of a bus launched the Civil Rights movement.
Rosa Parks
The group that developed an unbreakable code in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Navajo Code Talkers
The youth from the 1950s who rejected social norms.
He was the "King of the Railroads" after the Civil War.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
His approach to the Great Depression was "rugged individualism."
Herbert Hoover
She was a famous Blues singer in the 1920s.
He was the leader of communist North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
He photographed the conditions of the urban poor and published the photos in How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
He improved the production of automobiles using the moving assembly line.
Henry Ford
His progressive era program was called The New Freedom, which targeted the "triple wall of privilege."
Woodrow Wilson
She was executed during the 2nd Red Scare.
Ethel Rosenburg
The commander of the D-Day invasion.
Dwight Eisenhower
He used political cartoons to expose Boss Tweed.
Thomas Nast
She became the first female self-made millionaire by selling hair care products.
Madam C.J. Walker
His executive order integrated the US military.
Harry S Truman
She was the president of The National American Woman Suffrage Association when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
Carrie Chapman Catt
He was the Commander in Chief during the Gulf War.
George H. W. Bush
He founded the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
He created a process for making steel more efficiently.
Henry Bessemer
He was the first president to visit China.
Richard Nixon
She spoke out against lynching in the South by publishing newspaper articles.
Ida B. Wells
The leader of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I.
John J. Pershing
He led the Exodusters to Kansas.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
He was the first American to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Linbergh