Leadership
Became 17th president in 1865 when Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The location of the longest suspension bridge of its time, completed in 1883 and spanning the East River.
What is Brooklyn New York?
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn pitted the Cheyenne and the Sioux Indians led by this Indian chief against Colonel George Armstrong Custer who, not realizing that he was badly outnumbered led all of his men to their death in one of the worst defeats in the history of the U.S. Army.
Who was Sitting Bull?
More than 700 die in the earthquake and resulting fires that engulfed and eventually destroyed much of this city in 1906.
What is San Francisco?
Envisioned as a celebration of the abolition of slavery and a celebration of the Union Victory in the Civil War, this 1885 gift of friendship was originally proposed by French political thinker Edward Laboulaye as a symbol of democratic ideals and Enlightenment ideals.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The two commodities monopolized by Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller.
What were steel and oil?
Shot and fatally wounded by an assassin in 1881.
Who was James Garfield?
The location of the 1871 Great Fire, purportedly started by un unfortunate bovine in a barn owned by Mrs. O'Leary.
What is Chicago?
In a last effort of Native American Resistance, a group of Sioux were massacred at this location in South Dakota.
What is Wounded Knee?
More than 145 women die in this factory fire in 1911 in New York City's garment district, resulting in new safety requirements for factories and workers.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire?
With its declaration of war on this country, the United States entered World War I, eventually known as the Great War.
What is Germany?
With the 1908 price lowered over the years from $900 to $325, this became the world's first man-produced and affordable car.
What is the Ford Model T?
Vice President who becomes president in 1881 when Garfield in assassinated.
Who is Chester Arthur?
The state where Edwin Drake discovers oil in 1858.
What is Pennsylvania?
Surrendering to US troops in Arizona territory in 1886, this Apache leader is one of the most well-known Native Americans.
Who was Geronimo?
In this event, the stock market plummeted as business that had borrowed heavily to invest railroads went bankrupt. Two of the largest employers in the country failed: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company. The value of crops in the American South and West fell. Unemployment rose to 19%. The crash threw the power of the wealthy—and the powerlessness of labor—into stark relief.
What is the Panic of 1893?
With the battle cry of "Remember the Maine!" The U.S. entered into this "splendid little war" that only lasted three months.
What was the Spanish American War?
This 1883 legislation barred immigrants from this Asian country for a period of ten years.
What was China / the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Sharing a first name with a lovable blue muppet, this man became the 22nd president in 1885.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
Completed in 1914, but at great human cost with many dying of malaria, this massive project is still important to global trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
This 1887 legislation attempted to compensate Native Americans by dividing up reservation lands but resulted in a further eradication of Native culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
More than 2,000 people die in 1889 in this tragic flood in Pennsylvania after this catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River.
What is the Johnstown Flood?
As a result of the Spanish American War of 1898, the U.S annexes this country.
This 1917 amendment permits the direct election of United States Senators rather than their appointment by the governor of a state.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Beating the silver-tongued populist William Jennings Bryan, this Republican won the presidency in 1896.
Who was William McKinley?
These states, #43 and #44, joined the Union in 1890.
What are Idaho and Wyoming?
Part of a government program to open Indian land to white settlers in 1889, this state saw a huge rush of new residents eager to claim land.
What is Oklahoma?
"Grief and bitterness entwined are heaven sent; Sadness kills the person in the wooden building." This quote reflects the American immigrant experience at a particular location.
What was Angel Island?
The Spanish American war led to U.S. interference in this country's battle for independence.
What is Cuba?
This 1890 legislation was passed in a somewhat futile attempt to curb the power of businesses such as those founded by Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and other Robber Barons of the Gilded Age.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Elected in 1908, he became our nation's 27th president.
Who was William Howard Taft?
In 1890, this area and other similarly beautiful and unique areas across the country become officially protected by the Federal Government as national parks.
What is Yosemite Valley?
Known as a peaceful tribe because they did not practice scalping, this northern Idaho Indian group sometimes functioned as intermediaries between western coastal tribes and prairie Indians. When pressured to move, their chief led hundreds who fought bravely but surrendered close to the Canadian border, saying "I will fight no more forever."
Who were the New Perce?
Four Labor activists were hanged after this Chicago conflict between unionists and management.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
U.S. troops attacked the Spanish troops inflicting 1700 casualties near San Juan heights on July 1, 1898, showcasing the efforts of the African-American Ninth and Tenth cavalries and the Rough Riders commanded by this military leader.
Who was Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt?
Muckracker Ida Tarbell published her scathing expose of this company in installments in McClure's magazine in 1903.
What was Standard Oil?