Famous Inventors and the Arts
Presidents and famous businessmen/women
Western Expansion
Pacific coast map
Mexico map
Business and legislation in the Gilded Age
100

invented barbed wire 

Who is Joseph Glidden

100

front-porch campaigns

William McKinley

100

Area gold was discovered causing trouble with the Sioux Indians

What is Black Hills

100

Columbia River

11

100

Rio Grande

3

100

Rapid increase of pricing

What is inflation

200

invented the safety elevator

Who is Elisha Otis

200

served two terms nonconsecutively

Who is Grover Cleveland

200

Known as the silver mining capital of the world

What is Virginia City, Nevada

200

Mt. McKinley

6

200

Bay of Campeche

7

200

This act made gold the only standard for monetary value

What is the Gold Standard Act

300

skyscraper architect

Who is Louis Sullivan

300

Gold Standard Act

Who is William McKinley

300

state known as the Centennial State

What is Colorado

300

Coast Ranges

4

300

Sierra Madre Occidental

4

300

National organization for farm families founded by Oliver H. Kelley

What is the Grange

400

Invented the telephone

Who is Alexander Graham Bell

400

Johnstown flood

Who is Benjamin Harrison

400

Act that opened the Great Plains for settlement

What is Homestead Act

400

Bering Sea

9

400

Yucatan Peninsula

2

400

Centerpiece of the Populist platform 

the free silver movement

500

Greatest inventor America has ever produced

Who is Thomas Edison

500

dedication of the Statue of Liberty

Who is Grover Cleveland

500

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

500

Colorado River

12

500

Baja California

1

500

Process that voters can sign a petition to begin the passage of law

What is initiative

600

Christopher Sholes invented this 

What is the typewriter

600

standard time zones

Who is Chester Arthur

600

Year the first transcontinental railroad was completed

What is 1869

600

Salem

2

600

Gulf of Tehuantepec

8

600

This act set a precedent for goverment regulation of businesses

What is Sherman Antitrust Act

700
wrote In His Steps

Who is Charles M. Sheldon

700

assassinated after four months in office

Who is James Garfield

700

Type of writing that told a story using the scenery, customs and dialect of a particular region of the country

What is local color

700

Olympia

1

700

Sierra Madre Oriental

5

700

Evangelist that founded a Bible institute for the advanced training of Christian workers

Who is Dwight L. Moody

800

Gave the speech known as the Atlanta Compromise

Who is Booker T. Washington

800

Built the largest steel manufacturer in the world

Who is Andrew Carnegie

800

First state to grant women the right to vote 

What is Wyoming

800

Sacramento

3

800

Sierra Madre del Sur

6

800

city that became the first center of skyscraper architecture?

What is Chicago

900

Evangelist that founded a Bible institute for the advanced training of Christian workers

Who is Dwight L. Moody

900

established the Union Oil Company of California

Who is Lyman Stewart

900

Opened for settlement in 1889, mostly Indian territory

What is Oklahoma Territory

900

Gulf of Alaska

10

900

established the Union Oil Company of California

Who is Lyman Stewart

1000

Famous author that used the pen name Mark Twain

Who is Samuel Clemens

1000

organized the first successful national labor union

Who is Samuel Gompers

1000

Killed George Armstrong Custer at Little Bighorn River 

Who is Crazy Horse

1000

Cascade Ranges

5

1100

Composer known as the March King

Who is John Phillip Sousa

1100

Refers to a person who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product

What is an entrepreneur

1100

Immigrants who came to the U.S. as a result of the Age of Industry

What are new immigrants

1100

Mt. Rainier

7

1200

known as the Hoosier poet

Who is James Whitcomb Riley

1200

Became the world's greatest builder of free public libraries

Who is Andrew Carnegie

1200

Sheldon Jackson took the gospel here

Where is Alaska

1200

Mt. Whitney

8

1300

transformed agricultural practices in the South

Who is George Washington Carver

1300

transformed agricultural practices in the South

Who is George Washington Carver

1400

began building the Brooklyn Bridge

Who is John Roebling

1400

founded the Hull House to help improve living conditions for women

Who is Jane Addams

1500

Painted pictorial records of American Life

Who is Merritt Ives

1500

John Hopkins Medical School became known for this

What is extensive medical research