Gov't. and Economics
The 14th Amendment granted this people group citizenship.
black Americans
He is remembered for developing or patenting many electrical devices, most commonly the light bulb.
Thomas Edison
This worldview/way of life focuses on the things you gain, money, and possessions you own rather than what God says matters most.
materialism
This waterway was said to be the "spinal column of America."
The Mississippi River
He assassinated President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
sole-proprietorship
Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communication with this invention.
Telephone
These white southerners supported the Radical Reconstructionist government policies.
scalawags
These Northerners rolled up all their belongings and headed south to take advantage of the economic circumstances during Reconstruction.
carpetbaggers
This lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Calvary was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
George Custer
This president at the turn of the 20th century is credited with the introduction of national parks and protected areas.
Teddy Roosevelt
Businessman in the cattle industry began to capitalize on these rather than just disposing of them when the meat was processed.
by-products
Boots and all, this glorified occupation was responsible for working in the cattle drive fields under the leadership of a trail boss.
cowboys
These "haunted" areas in the West were formerly bustling places that were subsequently abandoned when the mines went dry.
ghost towns
Sharing the same first name as President Jackson from nearly 40 years earlier, he was impeached in 1868!
Andrew Johnson
This is the term for official pardoning of a group or people.
amnesty
This wealthy man formed the first trust, based in the oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
This federal relief agency was established to help freed slaves assimilate into society.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This American naval base in Cuba has been the subject of much controversy since its inception.
Guantanamo Bay
Likely earning more than $50 and eventually becoming the 18th US President, he would deal the final blow to the Confederate Army and acquire Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Ulysses S. Grant
Laissez-faire policies are most closely associated with this free-market system.
Capitalism
This agricultural economic system was developed in the South post-Civil War.
sharecropping
This ideology was applied to necessitate driving weak competitors out of business to illustrate the struggle for survival of the fittest.
Social Darwinism
This was the source of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Homestead Mine
This turn-of-the-centruy uprising in China involved martial arts-style Chinese nationalists targeting any and all foreigners.
Boxer Rebellion