George DeweyBorn on December 26, 1837 Died on January 16, 1917He was very involved in the NavyHis major event was the beginning of the Spanish-American WarHe became commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Squadron with the help of Theodore Roosevelt After the USS Maine blew up in the Havana Harbor, his fleet went to fight the Spaniards and he won big timeAfter the Battle of Manila Bay/Cavite he became well known in the USThe battle ended any threat of the Spanish fleet being affective and without many effect to the US fleetLater Dewey was appointed Admiral of the NavyHe also tried to go for the presidency but withdrew a month and a half laterHe became president of the General Board of the Navy and was also on a Joint Army-Navy BoardHe served on these boards until his death

William Randolph Hearst • Heavily influenced American Media and Journalism

o editor, publisher, and proprietor of The Daily Examiner, the most extensive journalist empire

o adopted “yellow journalism”o Pioneer in early televisiono Started one of the first print-media

companies to enter radio broadcasting • Founded the Hearst Foundation

• Elected to Congress in 1902 and 1904

● Emiliano Zapata (August 8, 1879- April 10, 1919)○ Son of a mestizo peasant○ Dedicated to land reform○ Leader of a rebel group in Mexico

■ Partner in leading: Francisco “Pancho” Villa■ Group opposed Carranza’s provisional (temporary)

government

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W.E.B DuBois

• American civil rights activist and historian• Co-founder of the NAACP• First African American to earn a doctorate • Supported the Atlantic Compromise• Protested against lynching, discrimination, and

Jim Crow laws• Leader or the Niagara Movement

John J. Pershing (Sept. 13th, 1860 – July 15th, 1948)

• John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing was a general officer in the U.S. army who led the American Expeditionary Troops in WWI

• Pershing is the only one to reach the highest rank in the US army, the only other general to hold this rank was George Washington

• He was a mentor to George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton in WWII

• People were skeptical of Pershing and his army tactics because he resorted to frontal assaults, which hadn’t been used since earlier wars

• People blamed Pershing’s tactics for a lot of unnecessary casualties

George Dewey

• Born Dec. 26, 1837• Was part of Civil War• Was assigned to 5 ships• Lead attack at Manila Bay• Captured or sunk entire Spanish fleet

in 6 hours• Only person in US history to achieve

the rank of Admiral of the Navy

Booker T. Washington

Born: April 5, 1856Died: November 14, 1915

Significance:•Formed a type of “political machine” that supported black leaders and the betterment of African American lives•Helped form the Atlanta Compromise •Served as an adviser to President Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft

•Part of the last generation of blacks born into slavery•Become the president of the Tuskegee Institute•Gave the Atlanta Address of 1895

Benjamin Toberman

Ida B Wells

Ida B Wells was very active in both Civil rights, and women's rights. In 1884 she refused to give up her spot on the train that she was demand to move from for a white man. She was moved by force and then sued the railroad

company. In the local courts, the rail company was guilty, but they brought it to the Supreme Court of Tennessee and the ruling was reversed. Wells then became a journalist. In 1892 three of her friends were murdered because

their stores brought competition to that of the white man. She wrote about it in her spot in the paper, telling every African American that they should

leave. Ida left town and went onto organize many African American women support groups and began fighting for women suffrage. Ida was viewed as

one of the most radical of all the women due to her openly opposing Booker T. Washington’s strategies, and for being one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1930 she ran for the

position of Illinois State legislature, making her one of the first African American women to run for public office. In 1931 Wells and her life of

fighting for her rights, women rights, and African American women’s rights came to an end.

Frederick Law Olmsted

April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903

• The Father of American landscape and architecture• Co-founder of Central Park in New York• Contributor to the design of the capitol grounds in

Washington D.C. • He helped with the construction of 18 large parks

and 6 parkways all over the country• He invented the system to create and design

parkways by connecting them with tree-lines

William Seward

• major political figure in mid-19th century • Lincoln beat him for the nomination for the

republican party in 1960, but filled one of the most important post in the cabinet

• Seward managed the foreign affairs of the United States throughout the Civil War.

• Seward's most famous achievement as Secretary of State was his successful acquisition of Alaska from Russia.

• On April 14, 1865, the night Lincoln was assassinated, Lewis Powell, an associate and co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, attempted to assassinate Seward at his Washington D.C. home.

• Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom

• The U.S threatened to take control of Hawaii • with military force

• She did not want her people to die, so she surrendered before the U.S attacked

• Went to Washington to ask the U.S not to annex Hawaii, but McKinley did anyway

Queen Liliuokalani1838-1917

Alfred T Mahan

• Military Strategist• Wrote many essays and books about some

Naval historical and biographical subjects.• Highly influential with the sea power areas.• Served in many places, including China,

Spanish-American War, and Spain. • The books he wrote set up how the navy set

up their ships prior to World War I.

Daniel Burnham• He was an architect and urban designer.• Made plans to design many cities, Washington D.C.,

Cleveland, San Francisco, and most notably Chicago.• First chairman of the United States Commission of

Fine Arts.• Designed several known buildings:

– Flatiron Building– Union Station, in Washington D.C.– Ford Building, in Detroit

• Burnham was considered the preeminent architect in America at the start of the 20th century.

Jose MartiNational Hero of Cuba • Jose Marti, born in Havana, Cuba in

1853, was the son of poor Spanish immigrants

• Starting in high school he promoted liberty and freedom for Cuba from the Spanish

• After denouncing a pro-Spanish classmate he was sentenced to work in a labor camp, however he was set free shortly after his sentencing

• Lived in exile in Spain and the United States for decades becoming a publisher, poet, and revolutionary philosopher calling for Cuba’s independence

• He also warned American interference in world affairs, particularly with the U.S.’s interest in Cuba

• Returned to Cuba in 1895 to lead a revolution against Spain

• Just two weeks after his triumphant return, he was killed in a small skirmish against the Spanish

• His death led Cubans to cry out for freedom and continue the revolution against Spain

Jose Marti became an apostle of liberty for the Cuban people around the turn of the 19th century.

John Hay

• He served as the secretary of state for both McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

• He established the Open Door policy with China.

• Open Door Policy- allowed all countries to be able to trade with China.

• He also helped during the preparation of creating the Panama Canal.

Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)

• The “Father of modernism” • He created the design for the modern skyscraper. • He is also one of “the recognized trinity of

American architecture”.• Moved to Chicago after he was let off in

Philadelphia because of the Depression of 1873. • Won the AIA Gold Medal in 1944• Coined the phrase “form ever follows function