State Test
Review
Important People
Activity
RICHARD NIXON
• VICE
PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE
WHO WON
SUPPORT DUE
TO THE
“CHECKERS
SPEECH”
RALPH NADER
• WROTE THE
BOOK UNSAFE AT
ANY SPEED,
WHICH LED TO
NEW
AUTOMOBILE
SAFETY
REGULATIONS
W.E.B. DUBOIS
• CIVIL RIGHTS
LEADER WHO
BELIEVED THAT
THE WAY TO END
DISCRIMINATION
WAS FOR
MINORITIES TO
LEARN A TRADE
TO PROVE THEIR
WORTH
WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN
• DEMOCRATIC &
POPULIST
CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT IN
1896 WHO GAVE
THE “CROSS OF
GOLD” SPEECH
IN FAVOR OF
BIMETALISM
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
• ASSISTANT
SECRETARY OF
THE NAVY WHO
RESIGNED TO
JOIN THE
VOLUNTEER
CALVARY GROUP
THE “ROUGH
RIDERS IN THE
SPANISHAMERICAN WAR
IDA B. WELLS
• JOURNALIST
WHO HAD TO
FLEE MEMPHIS
FOR WRITING
ARTICLES
ABOUT THE
LACK OF
INVESTIGATION
S ON
LYNCHINGS
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
• FOUNDED THE
STOP ERA
CAMPAIGN;
BELIEVED THAT
RADICAL
FEMINISTS
IMAGINE THEIR
OPPRESSION
WILLIAM H TAFT
• FORMER
PRESIDENT
WHO WENT
ON TO BE A
SUPREME
COURT
JUSTICE
TIMOTHY LEARY
• LEADER OF
THE HIPPIE
MOVEMENT
COINED THE
PHRASE
“TUNE IN,
TURN ON,
DROP OUT”
JOHN FOSTER DULLES
• SECRETARY OF
THE STATE WHO
DEVELOPED
THE STRAGEGY
KNOWN AS
BRINKMANSHIP
IN THE 1950S
MARTIN LUTHER KING
• CIVIL RIGHTS
LEADER WHO
BELIEVED IN
NON VIOLENT
RESISTANCE
KNOWN AS
“SOUL FORCE”
IDA TARBELL
• WROTE A SERIES
OF ARTICLES
CALLED THE
“HISTORY OF
THE STANDARD
OIL COMPANY”
THAT
ATTACKED
JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER
SACCO & VANZETTI
• WERE
EXECUTED
FOR A
MURDER
DURING THE
1ST RED SCARE
GEORGE MARSHALL
• SECRETARY OF
STATE THAT
RECOMMENDED
ESCALATING
THE WAR IN
VIETNAM
GEORGE WALLACE
• SEGREGATIONIS
T GOVERNOR OF
ALABAMA, WHO
BECAUSE ONE
OF THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL 3RD
PARTY
CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT
IN 1968
RACHEL CARSON
• WROTE THE
BOOK SILENT
SPRING
WHICH LED
TO THE
CLEAN WATER
ACT
BETTY FRIEDAN
• MOTHER OF
MODERN
FEMINISM,
WROTE THE
BOOK THE
FEMININE
MYSTIQUE
HUEY LONG
• MOST
OUTSPOKEN
OPPONENT OF
THE NEW DEAL,
DEVELOPED A
PLAN CALLED
“SHARE OUR
WEALTH”
CALVIN COOLIDGE
• GOVERNOR OF
MASSACHUSETT
S WHO GAINED
NATIONAL
FAME DUE TO
HIS SUPPORT OF
PUBLIC
WELFARE
FOLLOWING
THE BOSTON
POLICE STRIKE
ALBERT FALL
• SECRETARY OF
INTERIOR
WHO WAS AT
THE CENTER
OF THE
TEAPOT DOME
SCANDAL
STOKELY CARMICHAEL
• SNCC LEADER
WHO BECAME
A MILITANT
AND COINED
THE PHRASE
“BLACK
POWER”
EUGENE V. DEBS
• LABOR LEADER
WHO FORMED
INDUSTRIAL
UNIONS, MOST
SUCCESSFUL
SOCIALIST
PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
• INSUBORDINAT
E GENERAL
WHO WAS FIRED
BY PRESIDENT
TRUMAN OVER
THE ISSUE OF
ESCALATING
THE KOREAN
CONFLICT
BOOKER T WASHINGTON
• CIVIL RIGHTS
LEADER WHO
BELIEVED THAT
MINORITIES
NEED TO GET
LIBERAL ARTS
EDUCATION TO
END
DISCRIMINATION
SUSAN B ANTHONY
• WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE
MOVEMENT
LEADER
MALCOLM X
• MILITANT
FOLLOWER OF
ISLAM THAT
CALLED FOR
RACIAL
SEPARATION
UNTIL A
PILGRIMAGE TO
MECCA
JOHN T. SCOPES
• BIOLOGY
TEACHER FROM
DAYTON,
TENNESSEE
THAT WAS
TRIED FOR
TEACHING
EVOLUTION
JOHN & ETHEL
ROSENBERG
• FIRST
CIVILIANS
EXECUTED IN
THE U.S. FOR
ESPIONAGE
JANE ADDAMS
• LEADER OF THE
U.S.
SETTLEMENT
HOUSE
MOVEMENT;
FOUNDED HULL
HOUSE IN
CHICAGO, IL
HELEN HUNT JACKSON
• WROTE A
CENTURY OF
DISHONOR
ABOUT THE
GOVERNMENT’S
MISTREATMENT
OF THE NATIVE
AMERICANS
ANDREW CARNEGIE
• INDUSTRIALISTS
WHO DESCRIBE
THE “GOSPEL
OF WEALTH” IN
WHICH THE
WEALTHY
SHOULD USE
THEIR MONEY
TO HELP THE
POOR
SAMUEL GOMPERS
• CRAFT
UNIONIST
LEADER OF THE
AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF
LABOR
HERBERT HOOVER
• BUSINESSMAN
WHO LED THE
FOOD
ADMINISTRATIO
N DURING WWI;
BECAME
SECRETARY OF
COMMERCE &
LATER
PRESIDENT
FRANCIS GARY POWERS
• PILOT SHOT
DOWN IN A U-2
SPY PLANE OVER
THE SOVIET
UNION DURING
COLD WAR
ROBERT MCNAMARA
• SECRETARY OF
STATE WHO
PROPOSED A
HUGE PLAN FOR
REBUILDING
EUROPE
FOLLOWING
WWII
ALGER HISS
• FORMER STATE
DEPARTMENT
OFFICIAL
INVOLVED IN
THE “PUMPKIN
PAPERS”
SCANDAL,
CONVICTED OF
PERJURY
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
• SENATOR FROM
WISCONSIN, WHO
TO SAVE HIS OWN
POLITICAL
CAREER STARTED
A COMMUNIST
“WITCH HUNT” IN
THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT