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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John Deere & Cyrus McCormick | steel plow & reaper |
| Elias Howe & I.M. Singer | sewing machine & foot treadle |
| Charles Goodyear | vulcanized rubber |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | telegraph improved communication |
| Dorothea Dix | mental illness |
| William Lloyd Garrison | The Liberator |
| Harriet Tubman | Underground railroad |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st female doctor |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave - abolitionist - The North Star |
| Stephen Austin | led 300 families to Texas |
| Sam Houston | only American president of Texas |
| Joseph Smith | founded the Mormon faith |
| Brigham Young | led Mormons to Utah |
| James K. Polk | went to war with Mexico for land - believed in Manifest Destiny |
| Zachary Taylor | general of Mexican War - future president |
| Henry Clay | the great compromiser |
| John Brown | led slave revolt at Harpers Ferry |
| Abraham Lincoln | won 1860 presidential election |
| South Carolina | 1st state to secede from the Union |
| States in the Confederacy | 11 |
| Border states | maryland, missouri, kentucky, delaware |
| Jefferson Davis | only president of the Confederate |
| Antietam | first major Union win |
| Andrew Johnson | succeeded Lincoln as president |
| Thirteenth amendment | abolished slavery |
| Civil Rights act of 1866 | did not provide 40 acres and a mule |
| scalawags and carpetbaggers | tried to either help or profit from Reconstruction |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | "seperate but equal" was legal |
| standardized time zones | created for railroad companies & train travelers |
| Interstate Commcerce Act | tried to lower excessive railroad rates |
| transcontinental railroad | was not built by native born workers |
| Grangers | organization created by farmers to improve agricultural methods |
| telephone & typewriter | created jobs for women |
| steel production | Carnegie did not cut the quality of his steel |
| Grover Cleveland | served two nonconsecutive presidential terms |
| James Garfield | 2d president assassinated |
| Chester A. Arthur | signed the Pendleton Act |
| Gilded Age | referred to political corruption |
| American Federation of Labour | founded for skilled workers (Gompers) |
| Andrew Carnegie | made his fortune in steel |
| John D. Rockefeller | founded Standard Oil |
| Eugene V. Debs | organized the American Railway Union |
| Mother Jones | led a childrens' march to protest working conditions |
| August Spies | convicted of the Haymarket bombing |
| Edwin Drake | drilled for oil in Titusville, PA |
| Christopher Sholes | invented the typewriter |
| Mark Twain | author known for his wit and satirical writings |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| imperialism | was not fueled by a need for cheap labour |
| Hawaii | did not become a US posession from the spanish american war |
| Valeriano Weyler | Spanish general accused of forcing Cubans into concentration camps |
| USS Maine | ship that exploded in Havana Harbour |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino general who first fought with then against Americans |
| protectorate | a country controlled by a stronger power |
| commonwealth | what puerto rico became |
| sugar plantations | owned by American businessmen in Hawaii |
| George Dewey | commanded the American fleet in the Pacific |
| William Sampson | commanded the American fleet in the Caribbean |
| William McKinley | president during the Spanish American war |
| Spanish American War | official reason to go to war was to help the Cubans |
| Manifest Destiny | referred to the expectation that the US would expand westward |
| Alamo | became the battle cry for Texas independence |
| Santa Fe trail | began in Independence, Missouri and ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Henry David Thoreau | author and abolitionist who opposed the Mexican war |
| Compromise of 1850 | included a stricter fugitive slave law |
| Wilmot Proviso | proposed outlawing slavery in newly acquired territories |
| Winfield Scott & Stephen Kearny | heroes from the Mexican War |
| Fugitive Slave law | apprehended runaway slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Charles Sumner | antislavery senator beaten by Preston Brooks |
| Dred Scott | supreme court rules against |
| Stephen A. Douglas | proposed the concept of popular sovereignty |
| Nativism | favoring native born people over immigrants |
| Lincoln Douglas debates | issue was slavery |
| early Civil War battles | won by the south |
| Winfield Scott | devised the three prong strategy to defeat the South |
| Great Britain | Lincoln changed the reason for the war to slavery so Great Britain would not side with the south |
| Emancipation Proclamation | did not free slaves in the border states |
| Stonewall Jackson | killed after the battle of Chancellorsville |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | instructed his men to target civilians on their path of destruction |
| Richmond | capital of the confederacy |
| Radical Republicans | wanted the south to be punished for the war |
| freedman's bureau | did not help former slaves receive the vote |
| sharecroppers | rarely became independent farmers |
| poll taxes and literacy tests | ways to keep black males from voting |
| Santa Anna | dictator of Mexico |
| Robert Shaw | died with his men at Fort Wagner |
| Ulysses S. Grant | author, politician, president and military officer |
| Robert Anderson | surrendered fort sumter |
| George McClellan | fired by Lincoln |
| Fort Sumter | where the war began |
| Gettysburg | began when Lee's men were looking for slaves |
| Bull Run | Confederate victory |
| Shiloh | Northern win |
| Davy Crockett | died at the Alamo |
| Oliver Kelly | founded the Grange |
| Samuel Gompers | founded the American Federation of Labour |
| Henry David Thoreau | author, abolitionist who opposed the Mexican war |
| Robert E. Lee | refused Lincoln's request to command the Union troops |
| Charles Darwin | author and scientist |
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