The Wild West
This Lakota Sioux leader resisted U.S. expansion and helped defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This preacher was a leader of the Second Great Awakening and promoted personal salvation.
Who is Charles Finney?
This steel tycoon used vertical integration to dominate the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This inventor created the mechanical reaper, improving farming efficiency.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
This territory was purchased from Russia in 1867 and nicknamed “Seward’s Folly.”
What is Alaska?
This frontiersman created a famous Wild West show that toured the country and Europe.
Who is Buffalo Bill (William Cody)?
This evangelist founded Moody Church in Chicago and preached to massive crowds.
Who is Dwight L. Moody?
This oil businessman created Standard Oil and used horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This inventor built the first successful steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This island chain became the 50th state in 1959 and is home to Pearl Harbor.
What is Hawaii?
This sharpshooter performed in Buffalo Bill’s show and became one of the most famous women of the era.
Who is Annie Oakley?
This former baseball player became a fiery traveling evangelist in the early 1900s.
Who is Billy Sunday?
This powerful banker financed railroads and helped form large corporations.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
This inventor developed the telegraph and wrote a code for transferring messages.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This 1898 war resulted in the U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This legendary gunslinger and lawman was killed while playing poker in Deadwood.
Who is Wild Bill Hickok?
This religious movement encouraged Americans to improve themselves and society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This businessman introduced the assembly line and made cars affordable.
Who is Henry Ford?
This inventor patented the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This future president led the Rough Riders, was an avid boxer, and fought during the Spanish-American War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This large group moved west or to cities seeking land, jobs, and opportunity in the late 1800s.
Who are immigrants?
This reform idea pushed Americans to address social problems like poverty and alcoholism, and it led to things such as the Temperance Movement, leading to Prohibition.
What is the Social Gospel?
This term describes one company having control over the market.
What is monopoly?
This inventor improved the light bulb and held over 1,000 patents.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
Roosevelt's preservation of these areas led his overall conservation efforts.
What are National Parks?