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Gr 6 Hist Ch 11
Gr 6 History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reservation | land set aside by the U.S. for the Native American tribes |
| Homestead Act | act passed by government stating that any family that settled in certain areas of the West could receive 160 acres of land |
| Oklahoma Land Rush | event in 1889 when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma to claim land for themselves |
| Alaska | once called Russian America and later nicknamed "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox" became the 49th state in 1959; gold discovered there in 1896 |
| Hawaii | 50th state to join the Union (1959) |
| "Remember the Maine" | slogan during the Spanish-American War after the U.S. battleship Maine was sunk in Cuban waters |
| Buffalo Bill | Pony express rider, army scout, Indian fighter |
| Wild Bill Hickok | Indian scout and town marshal known for his courage and good reputation |
| Billy Sunday | famous baseball player who became an evangelist |
| Andrew Carnegie | brought the steel industry to America; donated much of his fortune to charity |
| Captain James Cook | discovered the Hawaiian Islands |
| Admiral George Dewey | destroyed a fleet of Spanish ships in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War |
| James A. Garfield | 20th U.S. President; last born in a log cabin; fourth to die in office; second to be assassinated |
| Charles Finney | brilliant lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers |
| Dwight L. Moody | America's most famous evangelist during the 19th century |
| John D. Rockefeller | organized the oil industry in America; created the Rockefeller Foundation to give money to charities |
| William H. Seward | Secretary of State who convinced the government to buy Alaska |
| Theodore Roosevelt | leader of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War |
| immigrant | the name given to a person who comes into a new country to live |
| "melting pot" | nickname given to the U.S. because so many immigrants have made their home here and added their influence to this country |
| Clermont | the name of the first successful steamboat |
| Morse Code | the system of tapping dots and dashes over telegraph wires |
| assembly line | the method of production called that uses moving belts to allow each person to do a special job |
| San Juan Hill | the most important battle of the Spanish-American War |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph and Morse Code |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Thomas Edison | invented the electric light bulb and phonograph |
| Henry Ford | invented the assembly line |
| Jan Ernst Matzeliger | invented the shoe-lasting process |
| Norbert Rillieux | invented the sugar-refining process |
| Grandville T. Woods | invented the steam boiler furnace; automatic air brakes; egg incubator; 15 electrical devices for railroads; etc. |
| Garrett A Morgan | invented the gas mask and traffic signal |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | invented the airplane |
| Robert Goddard | invented the liquid-fuel rocket |
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