Famous Inventors and the Arts
invented barbed wire
Who is Joseph Glidden
front-porch campaigns
William McKinley
Area gold was discovered causing trouble with the Sioux Indians
What is Black Hills
Columbia River
11
Rio Grande
3
Rapid increase of pricing
What is inflation
invented the safety elevator
Who is Elisha Otis
served two terms nonconsecutively
Who is Grover Cleveland
Known as the silver mining capital of the world
What is Virginia City, Nevada
Mt. McKinley
6
Bay of Campeche
7
This act made gold the only standard for monetary value
What is the Gold Standard Act
skyscraper architect
Who is Louis Sullivan
Gold Standard Act
Who is William McKinley
state known as the Centennial State
What is Colorado
Coast Ranges
4
Sierra Madre Occidental
4
National organization for farm families founded by Oliver H. Kelley
What is the Grange
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
Johnstown flood
Who is Benjamin Harrison
Act that opened the Great Plains for settlement
What is Homestead Act
Bering Sea
9
Yucatan Peninsula
2
Centerpiece of the Populist platform
the free silver movement
Greatest inventor America has ever produced
Who is Thomas Edison
dedication of the Statue of Liberty
Who is Grover Cleveland
Act that offered land and U.S. citizenship to any head of an Indian family who would take up farming
What is the Dawes Act
Colorado River
12
Baja California
1
Process that voters can sign a petition to begin the passage of law
What is initiative
Christopher Sholes invented this
What is the typewriter
standard time zones
Who is Chester Arthur
Year the first transcontinental railroad was completed
What is 1869
Salem
2
Gulf of Tehuantepec
8
This act set a precedent for goverment regulation of businesses
What is Sherman Antitrust Act
Who is Charles M. Sheldon
assassinated after four months in office
Who is James Garfield
Type of writing that told a story using the scenery, customs and dialect of a particular region of the country
What is local color
Olympia
1
Sierra Madre Oriental
5
Evangelist that founded a Bible institute for the advanced training of Christian workers
Who is Dwight L. Moody
Gave the speech known as the Atlanta Compromise
Who is Booker T. Washington
Built the largest steel manufacturer in the world
Who is Andrew Carnegie
First state to grant women the right to vote
What is Wyoming
Sacramento
3
Sierra Madre del Sur
6
city that became the first center of skyscraper architecture?
What is Chicago
Evangelist that founded a Bible institute for the advanced training of Christian workers
Who is Dwight L. Moody
established the Union Oil Company of California
Who is Lyman Stewart
Opened for settlement in 1889, mostly Indian territory
What is Oklahoma Territory
Gulf of Alaska
10
established the Union Oil Company of California
Who is Lyman Stewart
Famous author that used the pen name Mark Twain
Who is Samuel Clemens
organized the first successful national labor union
Who is Samuel Gompers
Killed George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn River
Who is Crazy Horse
Cascade Ranges
5
Composer known as the March King
Who is John Phillip Sousa
Refers to a person who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product
What is an entrepreneur
Immigrants who came to the U.S. as a result of the Age of Industry
What are new immigrants
Mt. Rainier
7
known as the Hoosier poet
Who is James Whitcomb Riley
Became the world's greatest builder of free public libraries
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Sheldon Jackson took the gospel here
Where is Alaska
Mt. Whitney
8
transformed agricultural practices in the South
Who is George Washington Carver
transformed agricultural practices in the South
Who is George Washington Carver
began building the Brooklyn Bridge
Who is John Roebling
founded the Hull House to help improve living conditions for women
Who is Jane Addams
Painted pictorial records of American Life
Who is Merritt Ives
John Hopkins Medical School became known for this
What is extensive medical research