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| Founded the Klu Klux Klan |
Forrest |
Where the Klu Klux Klan was founded |
Pulaski, TN |
Finished re-layed the transatlantic cable |
Field |
| Purchased Alaska from Russia |
Seward |
Price of Alaska |
$7 million |
nicknames for Alaskan purchase |
Seward's Folly; Seward's Icebox |
| Formed the Pullman Palace Car Company |
Carnegie & Pullman |
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 |
Borden |
