100 Most Influential Figures in U.S. History - Statistics

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Rank	Known For	Answer	% Correct
1	Emancipation	Abraham Lincoln	98%
2	American Revolution	George Washington	97%
8	Having a Dream	Martin Luther King	95%
4	Depression & WWII	Franklin D. Roosevelt	94%
98	Tuskegee	Booker T. Washington	93%
15	Bull Moose Party	Theodore Roosevelt	89%
3	Declaration of Indep.	Thomas Jefferson	88%
42	First Lady	Eleanor Roosevelt	87%
9	Lightbulbs	Thomas Edison	87%
14	Model T	Henry Ford	82%
26	Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	81%
99	Watergate	Richard Nixon	80%
54	Microsoft	Bill Gates	79%
23	Flight	Orville Wright	78%
23	Flight	Wilbur Wright	78%
76	Architecture	Frank Lloyd Wright	77%
55	6th President	John Quincy Adams	77%
17	Cold War Ender	Ronald Reagan	77%
21	WWII President	Harry S. Truman	76%
25	Founding Father	John Adams	76%
64	Hull House	Jane Addams	75%
28	WWII & President	Dwight D. Eisenhower	74%
32	Relativity	Albert Einstein	71%
24	Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	71%
16	Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	71%
12	Union General	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
18	Trail of Tears	Andrew Jackson	66%
6	Diplomacy	Benjamin Franklin	65%
66	Rock & Roll	Elvis Presley	65%
11	Standard Oil	John D. Rockefeller	60%
75	Home Runs	Babe Ruth	59%
57	US Civil War	Robert E. Lee	57%
5	Treasury Dept	Alexander Hamilton	56%
52	Mormonism	Joseph Smith	56%
13	Bill of Rights	James Madison	55%
10	Fourteen Points	Woodrow Wilson	54%
44	Civil Rights/Vietnam	Lyndon B. Johnson	49%
70	Explorer	Meriwether Lewis	47%
70	Explorer	William Clark	47%
35	Baseball Integration	Jackie Robinson	46%
79	Trumpet	Louis Armstrong	46%
27	Cotton Gin	Eli Whitney	44%
7	Judicial Review	John Marshall	44%
48	Atomic Bomb	Robert Oppenheimer	44%
84	Supreme Court	Thurgood Marshall	44%
63	Rebuilding Europe	George Marshall	43%
19	Common Sense	Thomas Paine	43%
92	Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	42%
71	Dictionaries	Noah Webster	42%
85	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	40%
45	Telegraph Code	Samuel F.B. Morse	39%
78	Harper's Ferry	John Brown	37%
72	Wal-Mart	Sam Walton	37%
38	Women's Suffrage	Susan B. Anthony	37%
47	Abolitionist/Slave	Frederick Douglass	36%
74	Mormonism	Brigham Young	35%
41	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	35%
100	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	35%
67	Circus	P.T. Barnum	35%
20	Philanthropy	Andrew Carnegie	32%
34	Polio Vaccine	Jonas Salk	30%
68	DNA	James D. Watson	25%
50	Mexican War	James K. Polk	24%
22	American Poetry	Walt Whitman	22%
87	Baby Advice	Benjamin Spock	21%
80	Yellow Journalism	William Randolph Hearst	20%
37	Wall St. Banker	J. P. Morgan	17%
65	Civil Disobedience	Henry David Thoreau	16%
96	Green Party	Ralph Nader	16%
95	MGM	Samuel Goldwyn	16%
82	Opinion Polls	George Gallup	15%
40	Pragmatic Philosophy	John Dewey	14%
51	Birth Control	Margaret Sanger	14%
93	Slave Uprising	Nat Turner	14%
39	Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	14%
94	Kodak	George Eastman	13%
83	Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	13%
31	Political Compromise	Henry Clay	12%
60	Southern Novels	William Faulkner	12%
62	Pragmatism	William James	11%
30	Feminism	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	10%
36	Cross of Gold	William Jennings Bryan	10%
29	Culture Wars	Earl Warren	9%
33	Individualist Poetry	Ralph Waldo Emerson	9%
77	Feminism	Betty Friedan	8%
81	Anthropology	Margaret Mead	8%
86	Christian Science	Mary Baker Eddy	7%
97	O Susanna	Stephen Foster	7%
49	Central Park	Frederick Law Olmstead	6%
58	Southern Politics	John C. Calhoun	6%
90	Fiery Sermons	Jonathan Edwards	6%
43	Civil Rights Author	W.E.B. Du Bois	6%
46	"The Liberator"	William Lloyd Garrison	6%
73	Reaper	Cyrus McCormick	5%
88	Physics	Enrico Fermi	5%
56	Education Reform	Horace Mann	4%
91	Abolitionist	Lyman Beecher	4%
53	Supreme Court	Oliver Wendell Holmes	4%
61	Unions	Samuel Gompers	4%
59	Skyscrapers	Louis Sullivan	3%
69	Newspapers	James Gordon Bennett	1%
89	Opinions	Walter Lippmann	1%

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