THE WEST & ITS LEGENDS
This 1876 battle ended with Custer and much of the Seventh Cavalry surrounded and defeated by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors.
What was the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
This steel magnate built Carnegie Steel and later argued that the wealthy had a responsibility to give their fortunes back to society.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
These overcrowded urban apartment buildings housed many working-class immigrant families under poor conditions.
What were tenements?
This secretary of state negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million.
Who was William H. Seward?
The explosion of this American battleship in Havana Harbor in 1898 helped push the United States toward war with Spain.
What was the USS Maine?
This Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man became one of the most famous symbols of Native resistance to U.S. expansion.
Who was Sitting Bull?
This businessman founded Standard Oil and became the great symbol of monopoly power in the petroleum industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This Chicago reformer founded Hull House in 1889 to provide education, childcare, medical care, job training, and other services to immigrant families.
Who was Jane Addams?
Critics mocked the Alaska Purchase with this nickname because they believed the territory was a useless frozen wasteland.
What was “Seward’s Folly”?
This sensational style of newspaper reporting exaggerated events and helped stir American support for war with Spain.
What was yellow journalism?
This 1890 massacre in South Dakota killed more than 150 Lakota men, women, and children and became a symbol of the violent end of the Plains Wars.
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This term describes complete or nearly complete control of an industry by one company.
What is a monopoly?
These investigative journalists exposed corruption, dangerous working conditions, corporate abuse, and other social problems.
Who were muckrakers?
This independent Pacific kingdom was overthrown in 1893 and annexed by the United States in 1898.
What was the Hawaiian Kingdom?
This volunteer cavalry regiment associated with Theodore Roosevelt became famous for fighting in Cuba.
Who were the Rough Riders?
This famed Ohio frontiersman, scout, and soldier helped guide expeditions across the American West, but his legacy is also deeply tied to U.S. military campaigns against Native peoples, including the forced removal of the Navajo.
Who was Kit Carson?
This violent 1892 confrontation between steelworkers and Carnegie Steel management became one of the Gilded Age’s most famous labor conflicts.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This journalist used photography and writing in How the Other Half Lives to expose the conditions of New York City tenements.
Who was Jacob Riis?
In 1854, this treaty opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American ships after Commodore Perry returned with seven warships.
What was the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This Filipino revolutionary leader first fought Spain with American support, then fought the United States after Americans decided to keep the Philippines.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
This famous Arizona shootout involving Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday lasted only about thirty seconds.
What was the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?
This powerful banker reorganized railroads, financed major corporations, and helped create U.S. Steel.
Who was J. P. Morgan?
Upton Sinclair intended this 1906 novel to expose exploitation in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, but public outrage over filthy food helped produce federal food-safety laws.
What was The Jungle?
This last monarch of Hawaiʻi was overthrown in 1893 by American-backed planters and businessmen.
Who was Queen Liliʻuokalani?
This 1898 treaty ended the Spanish-American War and transferred Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to American control, making the United States an overseas imperial power.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1898?