Famous Americans Midyear Review

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  1. 3. This person was the captain of the oil industry
  2. 9. This person is credited with inventing the power plant and the light bulb
  3. 10. This person is credited with creating the moving assembly line, becoming captain of the automobile industry
  4. 13. During Reconstruction, this person fought for amendments that would guarantee civil rights for African Americans
  5. 14. This person was an infamously corrupt political boss in New York
  6. 16. This person created the NAACP to fight against segregation in court
  7. 18. This person became president in 1876 and agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction
  8. 20. This person was president during the Spanish American War and the annexation of Hawaii
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  1. 1. This person was president during World War I
  2. 2. This person believed that vocational education would help African Americans fight the Jim Crow Laws
  3. 4. This person created the Hull House, America's first settlement house
  4. 5. This person was the first African American women to become a self-made millionaire in the cosmetics industry
  5. 6. This person was the captain of the railroad industry
  6. 7. This president believed that the Big Stick Policy would demonstrate the USA's international police power
  7. 8. This person was president at the start of the Great Depression
  8. 11. This person was a muckraker who exposed the effects of lynching
  9. 12. This person was the captain of the steel industry
  10. 15. This person was the captain of the banking industry
  11. 17. This president was assassinated, so his Reconstruction plan never went into action.
  12. 19. This president, called by his three initials, was president during the Great Depression and World War II