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35 Cards in this Set
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Pony express rider, army scout, Indian fighter |
Buffalo Bill |
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Indian scout and town marshal known for his courage and good reputation |
Wild Bill Hickoc |
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famous baseball player who became an evangelist |
Billy Sunday |
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brought the steel industry to America, donated most of his fortune |
Andrew Carnige |
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discovered the Hawaiian Islands |
James Cook |
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destroyed a fleet of Spanish ships in the Philppines during the Spanish American War |
George Demi |
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20th president, 4th to die in office, 2nd to be assisianated |
James A Garfield |
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lawyer who became a famous revival preacher |
Charles Finney |
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one of the most famous evangelist |
Dwight L Moody |
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Bought Alaska and Secretary of State |
William H Seward |
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a rough rider |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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name given to a person who comes into a new country to live |
immigrant |
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name give to U.S. because so many immigrants have made their home here and added their influence to this county |
melting pot |
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first successful steam boat |
clormont |
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system of tapping dots and dashes over telegraph wires |
morse code |
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method of production called that uses moving belts to allow each person to do a special job |
assembly line |
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most important battle of the Spanish American War |
San Juan Hill |
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mechanical reaper |
Cyrus McCormick |
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steam boat |
Robert Fulton |
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telagraph, morse code |
Samuel Morse |
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phone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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light bulb |
Thomas Edison |
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assembly line |
Henry Ford |
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shoe lasting progress |
Jan Ernst Matzeliger |
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sugar refining process |
Norbert Rillieux |
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steam boiler, augomatic air brakes |
Grandville T Woods |
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traffic light, gas mask |
Garrett A Morgan |
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airplane |
Wilbur and Orville Wright |
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liquid fuel rocket |
Robert Goddard |
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land set aside for the Native Americans |
reservation |
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What act said that if any family that settled in certain areas of the West could recieve 160 acres |
Homestead Act |
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government set a date for settlers to claim land in Oklahouma |
Oklhouma Land Rush |
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49th state |
Alaska |
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50th state |
Hawaii |
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What was "remember the Maine" |
our government sent the U. S. battleship Maine on a peaceful trip to Cuba to protect Americans living there, all was well until an explosion sunk the ship and killed many |