Unit 5: Realism People

• Samuel Gompers- the founder of the American Federation of Labor
• William Jennings Bryan- a Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party
• Andrew Carnegie- businessman who made himself very wealthy through vertical integration of the steel industry, also wrote the Gospel of Wealth
• John D Rockefeller - oil magnate who used horizontal integration to control most of the US oil market by buying out competitors, established the Standard Oil Company
• J.P. Morgan- the "bankers' banker",shaped American business and made profits that had previously been unimaginable
• Cornelius Vanderbilt- created the country's first railroad empire by building a railroad connecting Chicago and New York
• Booker T. Washington- African American progressive speaker who advocated for African Americans to work within the system, better themselves individually, and not to seek equality
• W.E.B Du Bois- African American intellectual writer who believed that African Americans needed to fight against oppression as a group, wanted social and political integration, higher education for blacks; founded the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP.
• Roscoe Conkling- Republican senator from New York who was a leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican party
• Jaimes Blaine- ran for 23rd president of the United States, face of the Half-Breeds faction of the Republican Party