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47 Cards in this Set
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land which the US has set aside for Indians |
reservations |
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the man who built the first mechanical reaper |
Cyrus McCormick |
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large herds of half-wild cattle |
longhorns |
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the men hired by the rancher to take care of his cattle |
American cowboys |
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process the cowboys used to keep one rancher's cattle from mixing with cattle from another ranch |
they branded the cattle with a hot iron, each ranch had a special brand different from surrounding ranches |
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towns with railroads |
cow towns |
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an event in which the cattle would wildly run |
stampede |
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the name of Buffalo Bill's traveling variety show about the west |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
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an amazing markswoman who could hit a dime tossed into the air from 30 paces away |
Annie Oakley |
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the great Sioux Indian chief who starred in Buffalo Bill's show helping to reenact an Indian attack on a stagecoach |
Sitting Bull |
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the Indian scout and town marshal known for his courage and good reputation
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Wild Bill Hickok
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Act passed by our government in 1862 which stated that any family that settled in certain areas of the West could receive 160 acres of land |
Homestead Act |
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the 20th president of the US, he was the last President to be born in a log cabin, the fourth President to die in office, and the second President to be assassinated |
James Garfield |
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people lined up in wagons and on horses, waiting to claim their 160 acres |
land rush |
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the date set for settlers to claim land in Oklahoma |
Oklahoma Land Rush |
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a person who comes into a new country to live |
immigrant |
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nickname given to the US because so many immigrants have made their home here and added their influence to this country
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a "melting pot"
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a brilliant lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers |
Charles Finney |
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America's most famous evangelist during the 19th century |
Dwight L. Moody |
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famous baseball player who became an evangelist
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Billy Sunday
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the man who controlled much of America's steel business in the late 19th century |
Andrew Carnegie |
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the man who controlled much of America's oil industry in the late 19th century |
John D. Rockefeller |
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Pony Express rider, an army scout, and an Indian fighter
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Buffalo Bill
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the name the US changed Russian America to; the 49th state
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Alaska
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the slogan of many Americans who felt we should go to war with Spain after the American ship mysteriously sank of the shore of Cuba
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Remember the Maine
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group of islands in the Pacific ocean that is more then 2,000 miles away from the coast of California; the 50th state
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Hawaii
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who discovered the Hawaiian islands
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Captain James Cook
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destroyed a fleet of Spanish ships in the Philippines during the Spanish American war
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Admiral George Dewey
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Our Secretary of State who urged our government to buy Russian America
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William H. Seward
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man who would one day become the president of the United States; he headed the rough riders
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Theodore Roosevelt
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the name of the first successful steamboat
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the Clermont
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a system of taping dots and dashes over telegraph wires
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Morse code
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method of production that uses moving belts to allow each person to do a special job
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assembly line
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the most important battle of the Spanish American war
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Battle of San Juan Hill
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invented the world's first successful steamboat
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Robert Fulton
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invented the Morse code
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Samuel Morse
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invented the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the electric light, motion pictures, the phonograph, and office machinery
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Thomas Edison
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the man who made the automobile affordable
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Henry Ford
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invented the first shoe-lasting machine
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Jan Ernst Matzeliger
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invented a sugar refining process which greatly reduced the cost of refining
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Norbert Rillieux
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invented a steam boiler furnace, automatic air brakes, an egg incubator, a telegraph device for communication between moving trains and train stations, and more than 15 electrical devices for railroads
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Granville T. Woods
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invented the traffic signal
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Garrett A. Morgan
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inventors of the airplane
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
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the man who launched the first successful liquid fueled rocket ever built
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Robert Goddard
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two crops America went to Hawaii to raise
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pineapple and sugar cane
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a group of Americans who were led by Theodore Roosevelt and who played an important role in the battle of San Juan hill
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Rough Riders
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