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Making Modern U.S.
for U.S. History
| Question | At the Battle of Little Big Ho |
|---|---|
| At the Battle of Little Big Horn, this Lt. Colonel led his vastly outnumbered unit to raid a Lakota Sioux village where he and all his men died | George Custer |
| In the northern plains of the American West, the three main tribes that clashed with settlers were the Cheyenne, and the Lakota and Dakota branches of this tribal group | Sioux |
| This massacre, which broke out when a gun went off while disarming the Lakota Sioux, was the final major conflict between tribes and the government in the northern Plains | Wounded Knee |
| This Sioux leader led a successful war to force the U.S. military to abandon several forts in Lakota territory after baiting and ambushing Capt. Fetterman and his 80 soldiers in 1866 | Red Cloud |
| This act officially transferred the U.S. gov't from the reservations system to providing individual plots of land and citizenship to Native American families | Dawes Act |
| This President took over after Lincoln's assassination and was the first president to be impeached by Congress | Andrew Johnson |
| This president is the only president in U.S. history to serve two nonconsecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| This industrial tycoon worked his way from poverty to becoming the richest man in history by founding Standard Oil, nearly monopolizing the oil industry | John D. Rockefeller |
| Three presidents were assassinated from the Civil War to 1901, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and who? | James A. Garfield |
| This man got his start in railroads and eventually became the world's largest producer of steel, giving away over 90% of his fortune to charities | Andrew Carnegie |
| This inventor is credited with the Phonograph, battery, and motion picture and is the founder of General Electric | Thomas Edison |
| These two inventors successfully completed the first powered human flight in 1903 | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| This inventor is responsible for the telephone and the founder of AT&T | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Though not the inventor of automobiles, this entrepreneur developed the assembly line making cars affordable for the masses and revolutionizing manufacturing worldwide | Henry Ford |
| This inventor, croatian by birth, made many breakthroughs in electricity and was responsible for helping build the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant | Nikola Tesla |
| Settlers of the west usually fell into one of three occupations: farmers, ranchers, and this: | Miners |
| The first nationwide industrial tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, rose to power because this business was necessary for all other large businesses | Railroads |
| What caused the massive wave of immigration from Ireland to the U.S. in the mid-1800s? | the Irish potato famine |
| Why did the Republican congress finally agree to withdraw federal soldiers from the south in 1876? | to elect Rutherford B. Hayes |
| What newly available material made skyscrapers possible, leading to the development of large urban areas such as Chicago and New York City | Steel |
| This terrorist group was founded to intimidate former slaves from voting | Klu Klux Klan |
| This group of congressmen led the way in passing the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments granting civil rights to all citizens, regardless of race | Radical Republicans |
| This African-American leader advocated a focus on economic independence and reconciliation between races over legal battles for civil rights and helped many former slaves escape poverty | Booker T. Washington |
| The highly educated author of "the Souls of Black Folk," this African-American leader founded what later became the NAACP and pursued civil lawsuits to achieve legal equality for black citizens | W.E.B DuBois |
| Two colonies were formed as refuges for former slaves in Africa; these were Liberia and this country: | Sierra Leon |
| This year was the end of the Civil War | 1865 |
| When was the telephone invented? | 1876 |
| In what year was the 15th amendment, guaranteeing voting rights to all citizens regardless of race, ratified? | 1870 |
| When was the light bulb invented by Thomas Edison? | 1879 |
| In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected as the first black man to the U. S. Senate, by which state? | Mississippi |
| This president signed the Klan Force Act in 1870, sending the military against the KKK to reestablish law and order and prevent terrorist violence against former slaves | Ulysses S. Grant |
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