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| 654934910 | Ulysses S. Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 0 | |
| 654934911 | "Forgettable Presidents" | term applied to the U.S. presidents between Grant and Roosevelt. (Hayes, Cleveland, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinnley) Because business men dominated the National scene. | 1 | |
| 654934912 | Garfield- Guiteau | President who got assasinated | 2 | |
| 654934913 | Railroad Barons | Powerful individuals who controlled the nation's railroad traffic and companies. They were generally quite wealthy and often worked together to ensure that they would make money and retain control over their businesses. | 3 | |
| 654934914 | Interstate Commerce Commission | created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland;regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers. | 4 | |
| 654934915 | Interventions that helped women in the workforce | Telephone Lightbulb | 5 | |
| 654934916 | Andrew Carnegie | Creates Carnegie Steel. Gets bought out by banker JP Morgan and renamed U.S. Steel. Andrew Carnegie used vertical integration by buying all the steps needed for production. Was a philanthropist. Was one of the "Robber barons" | 6 | |
| 654934917 | John D. Rockefeller | an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he retired in the late 1890s. He kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first U.S. dollar billionaire, and is often regarded as the richest person in history | 7 | |
| 659552830 | JP Morgan | Had made a legendary reputation for himself and his Wall Street banking house by financing the reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks, He did not believe that "money power" was dangerous. He also bought out Carnegie's Steel, and became the top Robber Barron of all time, and arguably the most powerful money-man ever | 8 | |
| 659552831 | Henry Bessemer | (1813-1898) An English engineer who created the Bessemer procces, a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron. | 9 | |
| 659552832 | United States Steel | J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U.S. Steel in 1901 (incorporated on February 25) by combining the Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million. It was capitalized at $1.4 billion, making it the world's first billion-dollar corporation. | 10 | |
| 659552833 | American Federal of Labor | founded by SAMUEL GOMPERS, is considered to be the most success union in American History. It is composed of chiefly skilled workers, is tightly organized, had limited objectives, dealt primarily with bread and butter issues and stayed out of politics & strikes. Its greatest strength has always been the ability of its leadership to convince its workers of the need for a strong union. In 1955 it merged with JOHN L. LEWIS' Congress of Industrial Organizations to form the AFL-CIO making it the strongest union in the US. | 11 | |
| 659552834 | Immigrant Groups with the hardest transition | New Immigrants: Immigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe. | 12 | |
| 659552835 | Buffalo Soilders | African American soliders who were named this because of their hair, which was like the buffalo's fur | 13 | |
| 659552836 | Cheif Joseph | The leader of the Nez Perce tribe that killed white settlers on the way to reservations because goverement took their land away. | 14 | |
| 659552837 | Sitting Bull | The American Indian Sitting Bull (ca. 1834-1890), a Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man and chief, was the political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre and during the Sioux War of 1875-1876. | 15 | |
| 659552838 | Geronimo | Geronimo, the leader of the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico, fought against the white man, who was trying to force the Apaches off of their land. Geronimo had an enormous hatred for the whites. He was, however, eventually pushed into Mexico where he surrendered | 16 | |
| 659552839 | Sooners | in 1889 U.S. government opened up what is now Oklahoma to give away land. Some settlers took possession of land before the government officially declared it open. | 17 | |
| 659552840 | National Grange and their issues | The more common name of the Patrons of Husbandry—this organization was formed in 1867 as a support system for struggling western farmers. This organization was a educational and social organization, but under the leadership of Oliver Kelley, this organization began to lobby state and federal governments for legislation that would protect farmers from the effects of big business. | 18 | |
| 659552841 | Booker T. Washington | African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality; he was the head of the Tuskegee Institute | 19 | |
| 659552842 | W.E.B. DuBois | black intellectual who challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow; he called for the black community to demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | 20 | |
| 659552843 | William Randolph Hearst | A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Journal and helped create and propagate "yellow (sensationalist) journalism." | 21 | |
| 659552844 | Joseph Pulitzer | He used yellow journalism in competition with Hearst to sell more newspapers. He also achieved the goal of becoming a leading national figure of the Democratic Party. | 22 | |
| 659552845 | Boss Tweed | William Tweed, head of Tammany Hall, NYC's powerful democratic political machine in 1868. Between 1868 and 1869 he led the Tweed Reign, a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city. Example: Responsible for the construction of the NY court house; actual construction cost $3million. Project cost tax payers $13million. | 23 | |
| 659552846 | Thomas Nast | Political cartoonist who's work exposed the abuses of the Tweed ring, criticized the South's attempts to impede Reconstruction, and lampooned labor unions. Created the animal symbols of the Democratic and republican parties. | 24 | |
| 659552847 | Jacob Coxey | a wealthy Ohio quarry owner turn populist who led a protest group to Washington D.C. to demand that the federal government provide the unemployed with meaningful work (during the depression of 1893). The group was arrested and disbanded peacefully in D.C. movements like this struck fear into American's hearts | 25 | |
| 659552848 | WIlliam Jennings Bryan | This Democratic candidate ran for president most famously in 1896 (and again in 1900). His goal of "free silver" (unlimited coinage of silver) won him the support of the Populist Party. Though a gifted orator, he lost the election to Republican William McKinley. | 26 | |
| 659552849 | Union Pacific | the railroad company that began building of the transcontinental railroad from its eastern starting point in Omaha, Nebraska | 27 | |
| 659552850 | Central Pacific | the railroad company based on the West Coast that helped build the transcontinental railroad; starting point was Sacramento, California | 28 | |
| 659552851 | Condition of Business and Government After the Civil War | Big Business | 29 | |
| 659552852 | Credit Moblilier Scandal | union railroad set up company to build part of railroad; charged taxpayers $23 mill. more than railroad cost | 30 | |
| 659552853 | Results of the Compromise of 1877 | the withdrawal of federal troops from the south | 31 | |
| 659552854 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions | 32 | |
| 659552855 | Inventions by Thomas Edison | Motion picture projector, the electric power plant, and the phonograph | 33 | |
| 659552856 | What spurred the growth of the cities in the late 19th century? | Factories and Big Business | 34 | |
| 659552857 | Settlement Houses | a welfare agency for needy families, combated juvenile delinquency, and assisted recent immigrants in learning the English language and in becoming citizens. Jane Addams of the Hull House Settlement in Chicago | 35 | |
| 659552858 | Extinction of the Buffalo | The Native American tribes out west relied heavily on the Buffalo for nearly all of their supplies. When American settlers nearly wiped out all of the buffalo in the west, Native American tribes had no choice but to settle permanently on reservations. | 36 | |
| 659552859 | Battle of Wounded Knee | The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as The Battle at Wounded Knee Creek, was the last major armed conflict between the Lakota Sioux and the United States, subsequently described as a "massacre" by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. | 37 | |
| 659552860 | Sand Creek Massacre | In Colorado territory in 1864, U.S army colonel John M. Chivington led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne settlement along Sand Creek River. The Cheyenne under Chief Black kettle tried to surrender. First he waved the America Flag and the White flag of surrender. Chivington ignored the gestures. The U.S army killed about 200 Cheyenne during the conflict | 38 | |
| 659552861 | Problems in the Great Plains for Farmers/Settlers | Indians Lack of Water* | 39 | |
| 659552862 | Billion Dollar Congress | Republican congress of 1890. passed record # of significant laws that helped shape later policies and asserted authority of federal govt., gave pensions to Civil War veterans, increased government silver purchases, and passed McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 | 40 | |
| 659552863 | Reason free public education gained support | Goes back to Jefferson saysing that a Jefferson cannot survive without educated people | 41 | |
| 659552864 | Major reasearch universities post Civil War | John Hopkins | 42 | |
| 659552865 | Library Funding in late 19th century | JP Morgan | 43 | |
| 659552866 | Sports in the late 19th century | Baseball Football Bakssetball Football Croquet | 44 | |
| 659552867 | Panic of 1873 | Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on railroads and western lands, and worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response (refusing to coin silver | 45 |
