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US107
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He created the first industrial laboratory concerned with creating knowledge in Menlo Park, New Jersey | Thomas Edison |
| In 1888, he perfected the Kodak camera, the first camera designed specifically for roll film. In 1892, he established the Kodak Company, in Rochester, New York. | George Eastman |
| As a wounded veteran became addicted to morphine. He was a pharmacist and as such searched for a cure to counteract this addiction. He began experimenting with coca and coca wines | John Pemberton |
| He created barbed wire by using a coffee mill to create the barbs. His invention made him extremely rich. By the time of his death in 1906, he was one of the riches men in America. | Joseph Glidden |
| Although officially an architect, his firm was the first to build above six stories creating the first skyscraper in the United States. -- in St. Louis | Louis Sullivan |
| 1891- Chilean Civil War and a fight with sailors from the USS Baltimore nearly resulted in war between our two Countries | Benjamin Harrison |
| 1867- William Seward purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million | US Grant |
| 1878- Territorial Dispute between Argentina and Paraguay and Discussion over the building of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama | Rutherford B Hayes |
| 1898- Spanish American War and the "Open Door Policy" | William McKinley |
| 1882- Chinese Exclusion Act and increased diplomacy with Latin America | Chester A Arthur |
| On June 17, 1876, He led a combined group of approximately 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in a surprise attack against a force of 1,000 cavalry and infantry, and allied 300 Crow and Shoshone warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud | Crazy Horse |
| The location where Custer's 7th Cavalry advance party attacked Cheyenne and Lakota tribes at their camp on June 25, 1876 | Little Big Horn |
| Adopted by Congress in 1887, this Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians | Dawes Severalty Act |
| Morning of December 29, the federal troops went into a lakota camp to disarm the, the death toll from this massacre was 146 Indians and 25 Army. | Wounded Knee |
| She was an American writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| The Coinage Act of 1873 stated that no silver coins were to be made worth more than what? | A dollar |
| the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada. Discovered, in 1857, by 2 brothers. | Comstock Lode |
| What is the name of the 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a $2 to $4 million of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars | Bland Allison Act |
| While not authorizing the free and unlimited coinage of silver that the Free Silver supporters wanted, it increased the amount of silver the government was required to purchase every month | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| With the international effort to push silver coinage a failure, McKinley turned away from silver coinage and embraced this, fixing the value of a dollar at 25 4/5 grains | Gold Standard |
| Following the coup against Queen Lilioukalani, this man was the first to petition for annexation by the United States | Sanford Dole |
| In his first term, Cleveland had supported free trade with Hawaii and accepted an amendment that gave the United States a coaling and naval station in this location | Pearl Harbor |
| This president said, "We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny," right before approving its annexation. | William McKinley |
| It was on this day in 1894 that the Provisional Government of Hawaii ended and was replaced by the Republic of Hawaii | July 4 |
| What was the name of the resolution that was used to annex the Republic to the United States and it became the Territory of Hawaii | Newlands Resolution |
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