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49 Cards in this Set
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reservations
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land which the United States has set aside for Indians
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Cyrus McCormick
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the mechanical reaper
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long horns
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half-wild cattle in Texas
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branded
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animals marked by hot iron - to show who owns the cattle
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Buffalo Bill
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Wild Bill Hickok
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show - heroes
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Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull
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Wild Bill Hickok remembered for
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being an Indian scout and a town marshall
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1862 the Homestead Act was passed and said
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that any family settling in certain areas of the West could receive 160 acres of land
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1889 the date the government set for settlers to claim land in Oklahoma has been called
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the great Oklahoma Land Rush
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James Garfield
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20th President of the US
2nd President to be assassinated |
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immigrant
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is a person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country
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People from all over the world have moved to the US and it is called the
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Melting Pot
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US citizens are not called by their country but by their continent
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Americans
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Charles Finney
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lawyer turned great revival preacher
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Dwight L. Moody
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America's most famous evangelist in 19th century
had been a shoe salesman |
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Billy Sunday
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famous baseball player turned evangelist
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Andrew Carnegie
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steel industry
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John D. Rockefeller
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oil industry - company called Standard Oil
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Rockefeller was the
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1st billionaire in history
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Rockefeller gave away over
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$550 million
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Robert Fulton
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steamboat - Clermont
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Samuel Morse
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telegraph and Morse code
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Morse code
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communication system that used dots and dashes
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Alexander Graham Bell
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telephone
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Thomas Edison
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greatest inventor in history
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Edison's inventions
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phonograph, light bulb, motion pictures, office machinery
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Edison said,
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration"
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Henry Ford
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built cars and developed the assembly line
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Jan Ernst Matzeliger
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shoe maker
shoe lasting machine |
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Norbert Rillieux
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sugar refining process
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Garrett A. Morgan
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gas mask
traffic signal |
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
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airplane and flight of powered machine in air
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Robert H. Goddard
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launched 1st liquid fuel rocket
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Samuel Colt
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revolver
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Charles Goodyear
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rubber
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Elias Howe
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lock stitch sewing machine
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PD Armour
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meat packing
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George Westinghouse
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railroad air brakes
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CL Sholes
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typewriter
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George Eastman
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Kodak box camera
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Alaska
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49th state
was called Russian America |
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Hawaii
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50th state
raised pineapple and sugar cane |
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Cuba
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1 of Spain's last possessions in the New World
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Battle ship Maine
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sent on peaceful mission
great explosion = most sailors were killed |
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slogan of Americans wanting to go to war
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"Remember the Maine"
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Purpose of Spanish American War
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to set Cuba free from Spain
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Theodore Roosevelt was a part of
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the Rough riders
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Rough Riders played an important part in
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winning the most important battle in the Spanish American War
It was at San Juan Hill |
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Results of S/A war
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Cuba was free
Us received Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico |
