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35 Cards in this Set
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What event was celebrated in 1881, at Atlanta, Georgia? |
Cotton Exposition |
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Name the March King |
John Philip Sousa |
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The person shot after only four months in office |
James A. Garfield |
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The year gold was discovered in Colorado |
1858 |
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The founder of Hull House |
Jane Addams |
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What did the Otis Brothers produce? |
Safety elevator |
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Who worked with Alexander Graham Bell |
Thomas Watson |
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The country that presented the Statue of Liberty as a gift to the American people |
France |
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The first state to allow women's suffrage |
Wyoming |
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The author of Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
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The battle led by Crazy Horse |
Battle of Little Bighorn |
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The inventor of the typewriter |
Christopher Sholes
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The Hoosier poet |
James Whitcomb Riley |
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Give the abbreviation for the regulating railroads |
I.C.C. |
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Who referred to the Age of Industry as the Gilded Age? |
Mark Twain |
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The first Democrat to be elected President after the Civil War |
Grover Cleveland |
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What group of people regarded the Black Hills as sacred? |
Souix Indians |
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Name the place where Mel Trotter was saved |
Pacific Garden Mission |
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Who developed the steel making process? |
Sir Henry Bessemer |
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What was Colorado referred to as |
Centennial state |
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Name the artist that painted cowboys and Indians |
Frederic Remington |
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Name the group of people who laid tracks for the Central Pacific Railroad |
Chinese immigrants |
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Name the precedent for government regulation of American business |
Sherman Anti-Trust |
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Name the place where the workers completed the fist transcontinental railroad |
Promontory Point, Utah |
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Name the two artists who presented a pictorial history of American life in the 19th century |
Nathaniel Currier and James Meritt Ives |
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The year that the United States census says the frontier had been settled |
1890 |
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The President who favored the gold standard |
William McKinley |
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The person who drilled the first oil well |
Edwin L. Drake |
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The poet whose work wasn't publishes until after death |
Emily Dickinson |
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The Democratic candidate who adopted the Populist platform for free silver |
William Jennings Bryan |
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The legislation that opened the Great Plains for settlement in 1862 |
Homestead Act |
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The President who influenced the admitting if six western states during his term |
Benjamin Harrison |
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The greatest inventor in American history |
Thomas Alva Edison |
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The first modern American skyscraper |
Wainwright Building |
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The person who made his fortune in the oil industry |
John D. Rockefeller |