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59 Cards in this Set
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Stephen long |
Makes a map and calls it the American desert |
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What year was there no longer free land? |
1890 |
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What year did American start looking for gold? |
1848 |
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What year were there 18,000 people in California? |
1849 |
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Who was general chivington? |
Lead soldiers and starts killing indian women children and Men |
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What do Indians depend on? |
Buffalo |
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Who starts killing off the buffalo? |
White people |
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How many Buffalo were there in 1870? |
15 million |
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How many Buffalo were there by 1880? |
200 |
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What was the Dawes Act? |
Indians had to adapt to White Lifestyle forced to live on reservations, speak English, and be given low end jobs |
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Who was wovoka? |
He was an Indian spiritual leader. Indians believed if you chanted and danced hard enough he would come and save them |
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What happened on Wounded Knee Creek? |
Calvary surrounds Indians and eventually wipes out Indians and their own soldiers |
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What years did the Civil War take place? |
1861 to 1865 |
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What was big in the late 1800s for Americans? |
Cattle |
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What year did the depression take place? |
1873 |
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How do Americans become more scientific with cattle? |
They start the feeding and breeding method |
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What is a marter? |
Someone who died for a cause then more important after death |
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When did the cattle drive end? |
1890 |
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What was the US population in 1876? |
40 million |
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Who was Rutherford hayes? |
19th President |
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John wilks booth |
Assassinated abe Lincoln |
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What is the spoil system? |
Stalwarts v. Half-breeds Stalwarts have no skills for govt and half breeds have qualifications for govt jobs |
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Who was James Garfield? |
President that was assassinated after Lincoln |
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Who shot James Garfield? |
Charles Gutteau |
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Who was Chester Arthur? |
President after James garfield |
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Grover Cleveland |
Runs for president in 1884 |
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About Grover |
Lowers tariffs but loses business support |
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Who is running against Grover Cleveland in 1888? |
Benjamin Harrison |
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What does Harrison do? |
Puts America in a depression, govt goes bankrupt |
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Who does Grover borrow money from? |
J.P. Morgan |
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What happened in the US in the 1880s? |
Immigrants came from Europe to find work in US |
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Who was Edwin Drake? |
Established first oil well |
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What did Thomas Edison invent? |
Long lasting lightbulb, power stations, telegraph recorder and phonograph |
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What was the kinetiscope? |
Movie camera that created an illusion of movement. Boxing and belly dancing were the first events recorded. |
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Who was George Washington Carver? |
He develops crop rotation, works as a professor and finds more than 200 uses for peanuts |
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What and where were the first locomotives made? |
They were produced in Europe and made from beams and iron |
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What did Henry Bessemer and William Kelly produce? |
Steel |
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What did Elijah Otis invent? |
The elevator brake |
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Who invented the first working telephone? |
Alexander Grand Bell and Elijah Gray |
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Who invented the first toilet? |
Thomas Crapper |
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What year was the first automobile produced in Germany? |
1885 |
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Who invented the first automobile? |
Carl Benz |
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Who had the first car in the US? |
The Dureya Brothers |
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How did Henry Ford contribute to cars? |
He mass produced cars. Produced cars in 12 hours. |
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What did John D. Rockefeller do in 1890? |
Called action against businessmen |
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Who was Andrew Carnigy? |
Invests in steel |
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Who buys the steel industry? |
J.P. Morgan |
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What was AFL? |
American Federation Labor |
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What were 5 issues with farmers? |
Railroad rates, bank loan rates, prices, image and no govt support |
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Who was Oliver Kelly? |
Created Granger laws to help farmers. Contributed to Ag movement |
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What is the "Big 3"? |
Politics, initiative, reform/recall |
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Who was Alfred Thayer Nahan? |
Wrote "influence of sea power upon history" |
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When did the Spanish American War take place? |
1890 for 3 months |
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Who were Randolph Hearst and Joesph Pulitzer? |
Creators of yellow journalism, sent to see what was happening in Cuba |
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Who led the "Black Army"? |
John J. Pershing or "Black Jack" |
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After US wins war what do they get? |
Control of the Philippines and Guam. Control Puerto Rico. Have a fort in Cuba. Platt amendment: Cuba can't make a treaty that endangers Cuba's independence. If a nation threatens Cuba, US can intervene |
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What year does Roosevelt become president? |
1900 |
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When did McKinley get assassinated? |
Sept. 6, 1901 |
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Who assassinated McKinley? |
Leon Czolgosz |
