Ulysses S. Grant
I was the winner of the Election of 1868, a Civil War hero, and a candidate of the Democratic Party
Who was Ulysses S. Grant
This was a battle to try to get the Native Americans to leave the Dakotas
Battle of Little Big Horn- 1876
We were the country that gifted America the Statue of Liberty
France
I was a Democratic candidate/ had a VERY close and heated election/came down to New York/ won by just over 1000 votes/He became the first president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms/He was also president in 1892
Who was Grover Cleveland
He was the leader of the people who overthrew the queen of Hawaii/Harrison sends Marines to protect the “new” government
who was Sanford Dole
I was completed on May 10, 1869, in Promontory Point, Utah
When was Transcontinental Railroad completed
I was a Republican candidate and a Civil War hero/I contested votes, which led to the Compromise of 1877
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
I took over after Garfield in July of 1881
Who was Chester A Arthur
He was the Republican candidate of 1888 /He campaigned very energetically
Who was Benjamin Harrison
These two things are what the rich used as an excuse for why they were rich and why the poor were poor
Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism
I was a food source that was killed off to hurt the Native Americans
What were the buffalo
We were a group of people who protested and stopped working on the railroad in order to protest for better working conditions and hours
Who were the Knights of Labor
I am known as a symbol of hope and immigration
Statue of Liberty
This was an attempt to increase American trade presence in Latin America in an attempt to squeeze out the British ( not really sucessful :< )
Pan-American Conference of 1889
I began building the Transcontinental Railroad in California
Central Pacific
I was the riot that happened in Chicago in 1886 and led to the end of the Knights of Labor
What was the Haymarket riot
I was the Republican candidate/Civil War hero again!/I also had the smallest popular vote margin in history
Who was James A. Garfield
She was overthrown by American sugar planters
Who was Queen Liliuokalani
I began building the tanscontinental railroad in began in Nebraska
Union Pacific
This date was when railroad workers went on strike/halted deliveries all across the U.S./They were protesting for better wages and working hours
What was the Railroad Strike of 1877
I was an Act that was passed in 1882 to stop immigration from China for 10 years/refused any Chinese in the country citizenship
Chinese Exclusion Act
Meant to eliminate weaknesses of Natives: lack of private property and nomadic lifestyle/Sent Native children to schools to be “Americanized/No more communal reservation land given to individual families
What was the Dawes Act of 1877