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

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#	Known for	Answer	% Correct
1	President during the U.S. Civil War	Abraham Lincoln	98%
2	Commander of the Continental Army	George Washington	97%
4	President during the Great Depression and WWII	Franklin D. Roosevelt	94%
8	"I Have a Dream", he said	Martin Luther King	94%
98	Founded the Tuskegee Institute	Booker T. Washington	93%
15	President who shot many animals that ended up in the American Museum of Natural History	Theodore Roosevelt	89%
3	Wrote the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	88%
42	First Lady for twelve years	Eleanor Roosevelt	87%
9	Invented the practical light bulb, movie camera, phonograph, etc...	Thomas Edison	87%
14	Pioneered the assembly line and the Model T	Henry Ford	82%
26	Creator of Mickey Mouse	Walt Disney	81%
99	President who established diplomatic relations with China	Richard Nixon	80%
54	In 1999, he became the first person in history to reach a net worth of $100 billion	Bill Gates	79%
23	Invented the airplane	Orville Wright	78%
23	Invented the airplane	Wilbur Wright	78%
76	Architect who designed Fallingwater	Frank Lloyd Wright	77%
55	Only President to return to Congress after his term	John Quincy Adams	77%
17	Hollywood actor who became President	Ronald Reagan	77%
21	President who made the decision to drop the bomb on Japan	Harry S. Truman	76%
25	Second President of the U.S.	John Adams	76%
64	Founded Hull House	Jane Addams	75%
28	Supreme Allied Commander in WWII	Dwight D. Eisenhower	74%
32	"E = mc²", he theorized	Albert Einstein	71%
24	Invented the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	71%
16	Author of "Huckleberry Finn"	Mark Twain	71%
12	Commander of the Union Army	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
18	Hero of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans	Andrew Jackson	66%
6	Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat who flew a kite in a storm	Benjamin Franklin	65%
66	"The King of Rock and Roll"	Elvis Presley	64%
11	Founder of Standard Oil	John D. Rockefeller	60%
75	Often considered the greatest baseball player of all-time	Babe Ruth	59%
57	Commander of the Confederate States Army	Robert E. Lee	57%
5	First U.S. Treasury Secretary	Alexander Hamilton	56%
52	Founder of the Mormon religion	Joseph Smith	56%
13	Author of the Bill of Rights	James Madison	55%
10	Proposed the League of Nations	Woodrow Wilson	54%
44	President who envisioned a "Great Society"	Lyndon B. Johnson	49%
70	Explored the Louisiana Purchase	Meriwether Lewis	47%
70	Explored the Louisiana Purchase	William Clark	47%
35	Broke baseball's color barrier in 1947	Jackie Robinson	46%
79	Jazz trumpeter who claimed to be born on July 4th, 1900	Louis Armstrong	46%
27	Invented of the cotton gin	Eli Whitney	44%
7	The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court	John Marshall	44%
48	Father of the atomic bomb	Robert Oppenheimer	44%
84	First black Supreme Court Justice	Thurgood Marshall	44%
63	General who made a plan to rebuild Europe after WWII	George Marshall	43%
19	Author of "Common Sense"	Thomas Paine	43%
92	Wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"	John Steinbeck	42%
71	Compiled the first major American dictionary	Noah Webster	42%
85	Wrote "A Farewell to Arms"	Ernest Hemingway	40%
45	"What hath God wrought", he sent in 1844 using his new method	Samuel Morse	39%
78	Radical abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry	John Brown	37%
72	Founder of Wal-Mart	Sam Walton	37%
38	Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association	Susan B. Anthony	37%
47	"What to a slave is the Fourth of July", he said	Frederick Douglass	36%
74	Led the Mormon pioneers to Salt Lake City	Brigham Young	35%
41	Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	Harriet Beecher Stowe	35%
100	Wrote "Moby-Dick"	Herman Melville	35%
67	"There's a sucker born every minute" he said (supposedly)	P.T. Barnum	35%
20	Steel magnate who built thousands of libraries	Andrew Carnegie	32%
34	Developed the polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	30%
68	Co-discover of the double helix shape of DNA	James D. Watson	25%
50	President from 1845–1849 who added more territory to the U.S. than any other	James K. Polk	24%
22	"Leaves of Grass" poet	Walt Whitman	22%
87	Wrote "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"	Benjamin Spock	21%
80	Yellow journalism pioneer who "Citizen Kane" was based on	William Randolph Hearst	20%
37	Banker who helped defuse the Panic of 1907	J. P. Morgan	17%
65	Wrote "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience"	Henry David Thoreau	16%
96	Author of "Unsafe at Any Speed", later a Presidential spoiler candidate	Ralph Nader	16%
82	Started a public opinion poll which bears his name	George Gallup	15%
95	Co-founded MGM	Samuel Goldwyn	15%
40	University of Chicago scholar who wrote "Democracy and Education" (1916)	John Dewey	14%
51	Founder of Planned Parenthood	Margaret Sanger	14%
93	Led the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history	Nat Turner	14%
39	Author of "Silent Spring"	Rachel Carson	14%
94	Invented the Kodak camera	George Eastman	13%
83	Wrote "The Last of the Mohicans"	James Fenimore Cooper	13%
31	Kentucky senator known as "The Great Compromiser"	Henry Clay	12%
60	Write "The Sound and the Fury"	William Faulkner	12%
62	Considered the father of American psychology, his brother Henry was an accomplished author as well	William James	11%
30	Organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	10%
36	Many-time Presidential candidate who have the "Cross of Gold" speech	William Jennings Bryan	10%
29	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1953–1969	Earl Warren	9%
33	Transcendentalist philosopher who championed self-reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson	9%
77	Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"	Betty Friedan	8%
81	Anthropologist who studied sexual culture in the South Pacific and Melanesia	Margaret Mead	8%
86	Founder of Christian Science	Mary Baker Eddy	7%
97	Composed "Oh! Susanna"	Stephen Foster	7%
49	Landscape architect who designed Central Park	Frederick Law Olmstead	6%
58	Vice President from 1825–1832 who was a strong advocate of slavery	John C. Calhoun	6%
90	Puritan who delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"	Jonathan Edwards	6%
43	Co-founder of the NAACP	W.E.B. Du Bois	6%
46	Radical abolitionist who edited "The Liberator"	William Lloyd Garrison	6%
73	Invented the mechanical reaper	Cyrus McCormick	5%
88	Built Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	5%
56	Considered the father of the American public education system	Horace Mann	4%
91	Preacher and abolitionist who had 13 children, several of which became writers or ministers	Lyman Beecher	4%
53	Supreme Court justice from 1902–1932 known for advocating free speech	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.	4%
61	Founded the American Federation of Labor	Samuel Gompers	4%
59	Chicago architect considered to be the "father of skyscrapers"	Louis Sullivan	3%
69	Founded the "New York Herald" newspaper	James Gordon Bennett	1%
89	Considered possibly the most influential journalist of the 20th century, he popularized the terms "stereotype" and "Cold War"	Walter Lippmann	1%

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