Native America
What two major types of animals were introduced to the Americas by the Spanish?
Cows (Cattle) and Horses
What law gave Native AMericans private property and forced children to go to schools to Americanize them?
Dawes Act
What were the two railroads that were involved with making the transcontinental railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Who was is credited with the invention of the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
How many Native American Languages are still spoken today?
800+
What battle did Custer die at?
Little Big Horn
What were African Americans who moved west from the Post-Reconstruction South called?
Exodusters
It granted citizenship to people born in the US or naturalized to be citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What animal did many Native Americans rely upon in the Great Planes?
Buffalo/Bison
It was the biggest contributing factor to the depletion of the Buffalo.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
What type of house was made out of dirt and grass
Soddy
It gave all males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Who invented the type writer?
Christopher Sholes
What Native America Tribe was the last major group of resistance to US expansion into the Great Plains
Sioux
What regions did many men come from to be cowboys?
South and Mexico
What Farming Equipment companies started during this time frame?
John Deere and McCormick
What was the event which started the debate over how money should be backed?
The Panic of 1893
He invented a process to refine steel faster and more efficient.
Henry Bessemer
How did specific wording affect the public opinion of the U.S. involved with conflicts between the military and Native Americans?
Massacres if Native Americans won so people would view them more negatively and the U.S. troops winning would be labeled a battle.
What is it called when many herds of cows are led up from Texas to railroad towns in the center of the country?
Cattle Drive
What Act increased funding for Agricultural colleges?
Morrill Act
What party accepted the Populist platform?
Democratic
Who invented barbed wire?
Joseph Glidden