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- Chicago gangster whose illegal activities brought in millions of dollars a month during prohibition
- Al Capone
- wrote stories about people who were unable to find happiness in postwar society
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- revolutionized industry production with the assembly line
- Henry Ford
- wanted to make homeland in Africa
- Marcus Garvey
- flew from New York to Paris non-stop
- Charles Lindbergh
- biologist who got arrested for teaching evolution
- John Scopes
- Italian immagrant accused of murder
- Batolomeo Vanzetti
- head of the war industry board
- Berdard Baruch
- Italian who divided up the Ottoman Empire
- George Clemenceau
- radical labor kicker convicted of sedition
- William Haywood
- choosen by president Wilson to lead the Food Amdministration
- Herbert Hoover
- didnt accept peace treaty with other nations
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- General for Pancho Villa
- JOhn J Pershing
- helpded congress decide to build Panama Canal
- Phillippe Bunau
- ruler of Mexico for 35 years and friend to the US
- Porfino Diaz
- built a railroad in Costa Rica
- Minor Cooper Keither
- business tycoon who wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua
- Corneleius Vanderbilt
- rebel leader who opposed HUerta, a mexican ruler
- Pancho Villa
- a southern journalist that planed to start slavery in Nicaragua
- William Walker
- Phillipino rebel leader
- Emilo Aguinaldo
- commander of the US Pacif squadron who attacked the Spanish on Manilla Bay and taking over the Phillopines
- George Dewey
- first US foreign minister to China
- Anson BUrlingame
- Secretary of State who helped China
- John HAy
- opened trade with Japan
- Matthew C. Perry
- a german immagrant with a distinguished career in the us government discouraging foreign rule in other countries
- Carl Schurz
- Spanish military leader against Cubans
- Valeriano Weyler
- secretary of the Interior for Rooseveltt
- Richard Balligner
- soeaker of the House of Rep. who blocked progressives
- Joshep Cannon
- black Harvard professor
- W.E.B DuBouis
- leading conservationist and chief forester. Tried to teach lumber companies how to conserve
- Gifford Pinchot
- wrote about child labor
- John Spargo
- best known Afican American in the 1800's
- Booker T. Washington
- chief of the Bureu of Chemistry in the Department of agriculture, who was against food perservatives
- HArvey W. Wiley
- helped for the Nation Womens Sufferage Association
- Susan B. Anothony
- "fighting bob" colorful progressivist
- Robert LaFollette
- a womans christian temperance leader. Famous for her raids at saloons
- Carrie Nation
- became director of The New York State Factory Invesitgation Commision
- Frances Perkins
- wrote about unhealthy packaging plants
- Upton Sinclair