Used by cattle herders to run cattle from Texas to Kansas
Chisholm Trail
Established the National Grange to support farmer's rights
Kelley
Published Ragged Dick and creates rags-to-riches genre
Alger
Impeached for trying to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of Tenure of Office Act
Johnson
Senate vote when frist-term Iowa Republican Edmund Ross votes "Not Guilty"
Johnson
Act violated by Andrew Johnson resulting in vote for his impeachment
Tenure of Office Act
Amendment passed granting full rights and citizenship to blacks
14th
Nations 8th President
Grant
Grant's Vice President
Colfax
Invented teh air brake
Westinghouse
Joined the transcontinental railroad as the Union Pacifice and Central Pacific lines are connected
The Golden Spike at Promontori Point, Utah
Amendment passed requiring all southern states to grant all blacks the right to vote
15th
Tried to corner gold market and cause a panic leading to black Friday
Gould & Fisk
Founded in Philadelphia
Knights of Labor
Made survey of the Colorado River
Powell
Defeated the Natchez in the fames Mississippi River boat race
The Robert E Lee
Forms the Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller
The effect of a treaty rejected by the senate
annex the Dominican Republic
Symbol the the Democratic Party
Donkey
First black to take a seat in the Senate as a Republican from Mississippi
Revels
Opens the great Traveling Museum; Menagerie, Caravan, and the Hippodrome
Barnum
Exposed for corruption in running New York City Government known as Tammany Hall said, "as long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"
Tweed
Rocked by the credit mobilier railroad bribery scandal whereby officials of the Union Pacific Railroad bribe the officials to try and ward off a Congressional investigation
Grant Administration
Won re-election over Greeley
Grant
Grant's second term-vice President
Wilson
Painted Arrangement in Gray and Black which is a portrait of his mother
Whistler
America's first National Park
Yellowstone
Pulled off the first bank heist in Adair, Iowa
James
Invented barbed wire
Glidden
Held at Churchill Downs, Louisville KY winner is Aristide
Kentucky Derby
Implicated in Whiskey Ring scandal whereby distillers bribed government officials to keep taxes collected on alchohol
Babcock
Became the first to use Bessemer process to remove impurities from molten iron
Carnegie steel mill
Set up nursery in Santa Rosa, CA
Burbank
The Plant Magician
Burbank
Made the first transmission of human voice with the memorable message, "Watson come here I need you"
Bell
Recognized 100 years as the United States held in Philadelphia. Among the exhibits is the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty
Centennial Exhibition
Decimated at Battle of the Little Big Horn by Sioux Indians
Custer
"Commanders" of the Sioux indians
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
38th state to enter the union - also known as the centennial state
Colorado
Killed playing cards in the Dakota Territory
Hickok
Hickok's hand of two aces and two 8s
Dead man's hand
published Tom Sawyer
Twain
19th president
Hayes
Hayes' Vice President
Wheeler
Removed all Federal Troops from the south, ending reconstruction
Hayes
Surrendered to US Troops saying, "I will fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph
Patented phonograph
Edison
Secret Irish terrorist organization broken up as 10 of its members are hanged for murdering police and coal mining officials
Molly Maguires
Detects the two moons of Mars from the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC
Hall
Two Moons of Mars
Deimos, Phobos
Observed for the first time on June 14, 1877
Flag Day
Sued English Critic John Ruskin for defaming his art
Whistler
Dismissed as Chief Customs Collector in NYC
Arthur
Organized under Mary Baker Eddy
Church of Christ Scientists
Created long lasting electrical light
Edison
America's 20th President
Garfield
Garfield's VP
Arthur
Wrote Ben Hur
Wallace
Former Civil War General
Wallace
Founded by eorge Railton
Salvation Army
Originally founded in England in 1865 by WIlliam Booth
Salvation Army
Fugitive shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner in New Mexico Territory
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid's real name
William Bonney
Shot Garfield in a Washington, DC railway station as he was en route to Williams College to give commencement address
Guiteau
"I am a stalward, and Arthur is now president"
Guiteau
Became 21st president two and a half months after Garfield was shot when he (Garfield) died
Arthur
Became head of Tuskegee Institute
Washington
Organized US Red Cross
Barton
Killded the Clanton brothers at O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona
Wyatt Earp (With brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday)
A Century of Dishonor exposes US abuse against Indians
Jackson
published Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
Harris
Killed Jesse James for $10,000 reward, in St. Joseph, MO
Ford
Creatd the US Civil Service, in part as a result of Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker
The Pendelton Act
a steel-cable span from Manhattan to Brooklyn called the Eight Wonder of the World, opens
Brooklyn Bridge
Bridge built by John and Washington Roebling
The Brooklyn Bridge
Establishes Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Cody
Declines overtures to run for president on the Republican ticket: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"
Sherman
Used slogan, "Ma, Ma where's my Pa," Based on widespread rumors that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child.
Cleveland
Became the 22nd president
Cleveland
Ran against Cleveland and known as "the Plumed Knight" because Mugwumps left the Republican Party to support Cleveland
Blaine
Cleveland's VP
Hendricks
Completed in Washington DC in 1885 - cornerstone was laid in 1848
Washington Monument
8 anarchists convicted in this bombing and riot in Chicago in 1886
Haymarket Square
Set the succession of Presidency; Secretary of State follows VP; others follow Secretary of State based on when cabinet department was created: Sec'y of Treasury, Sec'y of War, Atty General, etc.
Presidential Succession Act
Marries the daughter of his ex-partner in the White House
Cleveland
Dedicated in New York Harbor on Bedloe's Island; built by Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World
Statue of Liberty
The New Colossus
Lazarus
Constructed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty
Eiffel
Surrenders to US troops at Skeleton Canyon, AZ
Geronimo
First head of American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Published first volume of The Winning of the West
Roosevelt
Hit of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Oakley
Lost the popular vote but won sufficient electoral votes to become the 23rd president
Harrison
Harrison's VP
Morton
Makes picture taking universal with Kodak camera
Eastman
"You push the button and we do the rest"
Eastman
Published Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
Bellamy
Casey at the Bat
Thayer
This territory is opened for white settlement and claims for over 2 million acres were staked by 50,000 settlers
Oklahoma Indian Territory
Over 2,000 people died in this flood when a dam breaks and a reservoir behind it empties
Johnstown (Pennsylvania) flood
Rochester, MN
Mayo Clinic
How the Other Half Lives shows the terrible living conditions of the poor and immigrants in NYC
Riis
Hull House in Chicago
Addams
Around the world in 72 days, beating the fictional itinerary of Jules Verne character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 days;
Bly
Nellie Bly's real name
Seaman
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660 - 1783
Mahan
US Seventh Cavalry massacres 150 Sioux Indians, over half of them women and children
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Killed in skirmish with US troops along Grand River, South Dakota
Sitting Bull
Invented basketball in Springfield, Massachussets
Naismith
Published his ten-volume History of the United States
Bancroft
President of the Cetral Pacific Railroad, opens Stanford University in memory of his son
Stanford
built 10 story skyscraper, The Wainwright Building in St. Louis
Sullivan
24th President
Cleveland (again)
Cleveland's VP
Stevenson
Chief immigration station in US
Ellis Island
State troops put down strike against thi scompany in Pennsylvania
Carnegie Steel Company
marks 400th annivesary of Columbus' discovery of New World, among attractions is carnival ride created by Geroge Ferris
World Columbian Exhibition
Heavyweight title from John L Sullivan
Corbett
wrote The Pledge of Allegiance
Bellamy
Founded the Sierra Club
Muir
Acquitted of ax-murder killings of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachussets
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