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Category: Robber Barons and Industrialists
Category: Key Progressive Era Reformers
Unit 3: American Imperialism and World War I
Unit 4: The Roaring 1920s
Unit 5: The Great Depression
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  • Scottish-American industrialist
  • Dominated steel industry
  • Pioneered vertical integration
  • Philanthropist who believed in "Gospel of Wealth"


  • $100: Andrew Carnegie
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  • 26th President of the United States
  • Nicknamed the "Trust Buster"
  • Established 150 national forests
  • Won Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating Russo-Japanese War

$100: Theodore Roosevelt

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  • U.S. President during World War I
  • Developed Fourteen Points peace plan
  • Advocated for League of Nations
  • Won Nobel Peace Prize

$100: Woodrow Wilson

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  • Symbol of women's liberation
  • Challenged traditional gender roles
  • Short hair, shorter dresses
  • Represented social rebellion and independence

$100: Flappers

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  • President during stock market crash
  • Believed in limited government intervention
  • Struggled to address economic crisis
  • Implemented ineffective relief programs

$100: Herbert Hoover

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Founded Standard Oil Company

World's first billionaire

Revolutionized petroleum industry

Practiced aggressive business monopolization

$200: John D. Rockefeller

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  • 28th President of the United States
  • Implemented significant progressive reforms
  • Created Federal Reserve System
  • Led U.S. through World War I

$200: Woodrow Wilson

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  • Commander of American Expeditionary Forces
  • Led U.S. troops in World War I
  • Nickname "Black Jack"
  • First general to be promoted to "General of the Armies"

$200: General John J. Pershing

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  • Revolutionized automobile industry
  • Introduced assembly line production
  • Model T made cars affordable
  • Paid workers per day

$200: Henry Ford

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  • 32nd President of the United States
  • Implemented New Deal programs
  • Served four terms
  • Led U.S. through Great Depression and World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

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  • Powerful banker and financier
  • Consolidated numerous industrial corporations
  • Helped stabilize U.S. financial system
  • Played crucial role in railroad consolidation

$300: J.P. Morgan

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  • African American investigative journalist
  • Crusaded against lynching
  • Co-founder of NAACP
  • Fought for women's suffrage and civil rights

$300: Ida B. Wells

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  • Advocated for Spanish-American War
  • Rough Riders leader
  • Won Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating Russo-Japanese War
  • Supported U.S. imperial expansion

$300: Theodore Roosevelt

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  • First solo transatlantic flight in 1927
  • Flew "Spirit of St. Louis"
  • Became international celebrity
  • Transformed aviation technology

$300: Charles Lindbergh

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  • FDR's wife and social activist
  • Advocated for civil rights
  • Wrote newspaper column
  • Transformed role of First Lady

: Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • Railroad and shipping magnate
  • Built transportation empire
  • Known as "Commodore"
  • Transformed transportation infrastructure

$400: Cornelius Vanderbilt

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  • Wrote "The Jungle"
  • Exposed horrific conditions in meat-packing industry
  • Socialist writer and social reformer
  • Sparked food safety legislation

$400: Upton Sinclair

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  • President during Spanish-American War
  • Annexed Hawaii
  • Initiated American imperial expansion
  • Assassinated in 1901

$400: William McKinley

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  • Harlem Renaissance poet
  • Celebrated Black culture and identity
  • Wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
  • Key voice of African American experience

$400: Langston Hughes

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  • Author of "The Grapes of Wrath"
  • Documented Great Depression experiences
  • Nobel Prize in Literature winner
  • Captured struggles of migrant workers

John Steinbeck

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  • Notorious railroad speculator
  • Manipulated stock markets
  • Known as "Mephistopheles of Wall Street"
  • Controversial financial strategist

$500: Jay Gould

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  • Photojournalist documenting urban poverty
  • Wrote "How the Other Half Lives"
  • Sparked tenement housing reforms
  • Used photography to expose social conditions

$500: Jacob Riis

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  • Powerful Senate leader
  • Opposed League of Nations
  • Influential in foreign policy debates
  • Key figure in U.S. imperialism

$500: Henry Cabot Lodge

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  • Jazz musician and trumpeter
  • Pioneered jazz improvisation
  • Nickname "Satchmo"
  • Transformed American music culture

Louis Armstrong

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  • Louisiana Governor and Senator
  • "Share Our Wealth" program
  • Populist political figure
  • Challenged FDR from the left

Huey Long