PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO KNOW

1. PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO KNOW PICTURES

2. I was president of the US during Civil War Lincoln

3. I became president when Lincoln was assassinated. Andrew Johnson- he was impeached!

4. I achieved prominence as a leader for African Americans. I urged my people to get an education and learn a trade. Equality would come With economic Success. Booker T. Washington

5. I was the leader of the steel industry during the Industrial Age. Andrew Carnegie

6. What union did I lead? American Railway Union---ARU Our union Organized the Pullman Strike.

7. I was accused of being a spy. During the Cold War I was accused- but they only convicted me of perjury. Alger Hiss

8. I sued for my freedom. In the years before the Civil War I had lived in A free state. The Supreme Court Denied me freedom and said slavery Could NOT be limited Anywhere. Dred Scott

9. I was a former slave. I ran North and became The leading black ABOLITIONIST. I urged Lincoln to let African Americans fight in the War. After the war, I became the Ambassador to Haiti. Frederick Douglass

10. I invented the electric lightbulb. Thomas Edison

11. I invented the cotton gin. Eli Whitney

12. I led the country through the Depression and WWII F.D.R. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

13. I implemented the assembly line in automobile production. Henry Ford

14. I was the editor of The Liberator. I demanded an immediate end to Slavery. I burned a Copy of The Constitution to Prove my point. William Lloyd Garrison

15. If you’re in prison pacin’… I wrote the Virginia Declaration Of Rights. Madison used MY Ideas in the Bill of Rights. Try to remember GEORGE MASON

16. I was the leader of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev

17. I led the Union Army and later became president. Ulysses S. Grant

18. I was the founder of the AFL American Federation Of Labor. We only accepted skilled labor as members. Samuel Gompers

19. I was the first woman on the Supreme Court. • Sandra Day O'Connor

20. I refused to give up my seat on a Montgomery, Al. bus. • Rosa Parks- she was a member of the NAACP

21. I led the Confederate Army. • I surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. Robert E. Lee

22. I was a Rough Rider and a Progressive President • Theodore Roosevelt

23. I wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe This book made people In the North aware of the Cruelty of slavery.

24. I walked on the moon in 1969 • Neil Armstrong

25. I went to China and Moscow, USSR • I also ended American involvement in Vietnam- VIETNAMIZATION • Richard M. Nixon

26. I handled the Cuban Missile Crisis • I was assassinated in Dallas Texas in 1963 • John Fitzgerald Kennedy

27. I was the first president • George Washington • I had been the leader of the Continental Army in the Revolution.

28. I wrote the Declaration of Independence • Thomas Jefferson • I was also the 3rd president and the leader of the Democratic Republicans.

29. I wrote about natural rights • I said that people created governments and gave them their power. • Jefferson borrowed my ideas. • John Locke • Enlightenment philosopher

30. I started the NAACP • I wanted immediate equality for African Americans. • W.E.B.DuBois

31. I controlled the railroad industry • Cornelius Vanderbilt

32. I was a major figure in banking • J.P. Morgan

33. I controlled the oil industry • John D. Rockefeller

34. I was the greatest member of the Underground railroad • Harriet Tubman

35. I was the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall

36. Who was charged with passing atomic weapon secrets to USSR? • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

37. I forced an end to the Cold War • Ronald Reagan

38. I came up with the 14 points • Woodrow Wilson WWI • 14th point was • League of Nations

39. I was the hero of the “Common Man” • Andrew Jackson SPOILS SYSTEM / VETO / Killed the Bank Of US / Trail of Tears / Nullification Crisis

40. Federalist Chief Justice • Marbury v. Madison----judicial review • Maryland v. McCulloch----states can’t tax federal government. • JOHN MARSHALL

41. I escalated the war in Vietnam • Hey, hey, __ ___ ___, how many kids did you kill today? • Lyndon Baines Johnson

42. I was called the “Great Compromiser” • I came up with the Missouri Compromise in 1820. • I came up with the Compromise of 1850. • HENRY CLAY

43. I initiated the DOLLAR Diplomacy policy • I was also the fattest president! • William Howard Taft • Invest overseas- we will • Send troops to protect • Your businesses.

44. I was the commander of D-Day • I later became president and threatened MASSIVE RETALIATION if the Russians attacked us. • DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

45. I had a doctrine that proposed containment of communism. • Harry S. Truman I also made the decision to drop atomic Bombs on Japan at the end of WWII.

46. I was a leader of the FEDERALIST PARTY • Along with John Adams, I wanted a strong central government. • Alexander Hamilton

47. I was the “father” of the Constitution • I added the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution to make the Anti-Federalists happy. • The Bill of Rights • JAMES MADISON

48. I was 16 when I led Lewis and Clark • Sacajawea

49. I arranged a treaty of alliance with France • Ben Franklin- France entered the war after the battle of SARATOGA.

50. I wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom • Thomas Jefferson- states cannot have an official religion- a tax supported religion.