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AmericanHistoryHon
All Names and Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| General Lee giving order for pickett to charge is known as... | picketts charge |
| union | north |
| south | confederate |
| William T. Sherman | Union |
| What percent of the population died from the civil war? | 2% |
| Nickname of jackson | stonewall |
| john brown | martyr for the abolition movement |
| what happened after Lincoln was elected? | S. caorolina seceded from the union (Florida was 3rd) |
| Ulysses S. Grant | union |
| Great Skedaddle | union troops retreated |
| Robert E. Lee | turned down union army for CONFEDERATE |
| Who had the major advantage? | NORTH |
| Manasses Junction | 1st battle of Bull Run |
| Who was led by Chief Crazy Horse | Sioux |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | more than 260 killed. plus + Custer |
| more than 200 massacred (unarmed sioux soldiers) | @ Wounded Knee |
| chisholm trail | major cattle route |
| grange | organization for farmers |
| oliver hudson kelly | started Patrons of husbandry |
| what did the grange and patron husbandry lead to? | Farmer's alliance |
| populism | movement of the people |
| purpose of peoples party | give ppl greater voice in gov't |
| Edison | perfected lightbulb & research lab |
| oil was | transformed into kerosene |
| what became the most important form of oil? | gasoline |
| Type writer | Christopher Sholes |
| Telephone. (Ring, Ring) | Alexander "Bell" |
| What 2 inventions opened doors to women in the work force? | Typewriter + telephone |
| what caused time zones | railroads |
| first railroads met at | promontory Point , Utah |
| Central Pacific Railroad | Chinese |
| Union Pacific Railroad | Irish |
| geaorge M. pullman | sleeper cars |
| John D. ROckefeller | founded standard oil company accused of being a ROBBER BARON |
| Social Darwinism AKA "natural selection" | weeding out less suited individuals and enabling the best adapted to survive |
| Professor C.F Dowd | earth into 24 time zones |
| Samuel Gompor's | American Federation of Labor prez |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright | 1st successful flight in N. Carolina |
| George Eastman | Kodak (photography ease) |
| compulsory laws | require children ages 8-14 to attend school |
| Thomas Nast | political cartoonist |
| Tweed | 120 counts of fraud and extortion;12 yrs in jail bc of his big scam |
| Tammany Hall | Boss tweed was head of it; powerful democratic political machine |
| street cars in.. | San Fran. |
| Subways in... | Boston |
| Louis Sullivan &Frank Wright | Architects |
| frederick Law olmsted | Landscaping most likely for new york |
| W.E.B Du Bois | 1st african american to earn PHD from harvard (smartest of the time) |
| voters had to pass.. | literacy tests |
| founded Niagara movement | W.E.B Du Bois |
| "The Crises" | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| jim crow laws | made it legal for segregation |
| number 1 sport | baseball |
| number 2 sport | boxing |
| number 3 sport | horse-racing |
| yellow journalism | use of sensationalism or exaggerated stories;helped sell newspapers |
| Mark Twain | inspirational writer known for huckleberry fin |
| Scott Joplin | maple leaf rag song RAGTIME |
| earliest form shopping center opened in | cleveland ohio |
| gives a lady what she wants quote | marshall field |
| Jazz grew from where? | New Orleans |
| Postal service introduced... | rural free delivery (RFD) |
| Prohibition | banning of alcoholic beverages |
| William McKinley | Elected for VP in 1900 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Elected for VP in 1900 |
| WHos is assassinated with the mckinley and roosevelt election | MCKINLEY |
| who was an imperialist? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| George Dewey | launched surprise attack on spanish ships |
| Manila Bay | surprise attacks on spanish ships took place |
| U.S.S. Maine .(What Happened) | mysteriously exploded;us blamed spain; Us called for war. |
| what sparked the war in Philippines? | U.s.s maine |
| Theodore Roosevelt led a group to ST. JUAN HILL known as | "Rough Riders" |
| Black soldiers. AKA | "Buffalo Soldiers" |
| Black Hand | Terrorist Group |
| where was the black hand from? | Serbia |
| Central Powers? | Germany Austria-Hungary, And Ottoman Empire(turkey) |
| Allies were... | Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, And eventually U.S |
| stalemate | 1st several months of war |
| area between 2 armies | no man's land |
| what movement were women active in? | Peace movement |
| Weapons of Industrialization | Machine gun;poison gas; flame-thrower |
| What did the Germans sink? | British Liner |
| German U boats were a method of | surprise attacks |
| General John J. Pershing | sent to Europe by us war department (was drafted) |
| 25 thousand women volunteered as | nurses,drivers,clerks,telephone,operators and oversea gov't positions |
| what did the u.s use to protect merchant ships | convoy system |
| doughboys bc | buttons on soldiers uniform were dumpling shaped |
| woodrow wilson | cabinet voted unanimously for war |
| Harlem Hell fighters & who'd they join? | group of african american soldiers who joined french forces |
| Vladimir Lenin | made peace w/ germany head of russia was out of war |
| What was the turning point of the war | americans saved paris despite losing about half of its troops during the fighting |
| willaim t sampson | led blockade for spanish fleet into cuba (santiago) |
| two opposing beliefs of relationships to Britains war | loyalists and patriots |
| represented newly recognized Us when treaty was written | Jogn adams.Ben Frank. John jay |
| Daniel boone | |
| Lewis & CLark | |
| General Winfield Scott | Whig Party candidate |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of uncle tom's cabin |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued for freedom but lost |
| debated stephan douglas on slavery in election for u.s Senate | Abe. Lincoln |
| 1860 electee | Abe lincoln |
| john brown | hanged for attacking arsenal at HARPERS FERRY |
| jefferson davis | Prez of Confederacy |
| 2 that defended richmond from union capture? | Stonewall jackson and Robert E. Lee |
| what 2 generals were defeated at gettysburg | lee& george pickett |
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