Presidents 1
What years was President Andrew Johnson in office?
1865 - 1869
What years was President Benjamin Harrison in office?
1889 - 1893
What state was he majority of Silver (and some gold) mined in?
Nevada
Definition: people who develop large areas of land to farm cattle. What word is this describing?
Ranchers
What president did Andrew Johnson take over for?
Lincoln
What years was president U.S. Grant in office?
1869 - 1877
What state did president Benjamin Harrison live and die in?
Indiana
What state did the Union Pacific RR company start in on the transcontinental railroad and what direction did they begin working towards?
Nebraska; headed west
Definition: a track system that connected the East coast to the West coast. What is this describing?
Transcontinental Railroad
How was President Garfield's assassin and President McKinley's assassin executed for their crimes?
Garfield = hung
McKinley = electric chair
What years was president Rutherford B. Hayes in office?
1877 - 1881
President James Garifeld was shot in a train station, but he did not die until months later. Explain what his doctors did to make his situation worse?
What state did the Central Pacific RR company start in on the transcontinental railroad and what direct did they begin working in?
California; headed East
Definition: rapid growth of population and development into cities. What word is this describing?
Urbanization
What decision did the Supreme Court make in the Plessy V. Ferguson case?
They decided that having separate facilities for the different races was okay.
What years was president Garfield in office?
1881 - 1881
What is one result of President McKinley’s assassination?
The Secret Service was tasked with the job of protecting the president
Many people died in factories (like in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire) and while working in gold / silver mines in the west. Why was this happening?
lack of laws and regulations as these developments happened faster than the law could keep up
Definition: groups who work to make places more fair and safer for the workers. What is this describing?
Labor unions
What was particularly strange about President Benjamin Harrison's second wife?
She was Harrison's first wife's niece
What years was President Chester Arthur in office?
1881 - 1885
Glover Cleveland was the first (and only until just a couple years ago) president to do what?
be elected for two non-consecutive terms as president
“Settling of the west” is to the West Coast as ______________________ is to the East Coast.
Industrialization
Define frontier
a frontier is a large, unsettled (or unknown) area of land
How many days after Garfield was shot did he die?
79 days