Hist 10 Exam 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Custer's Last Stand: Who | Sioux Indians General George Custer & 7th Cavalry |
| Custer's Last Stand: What | Battle of Little Bighorn Custer led 250 men against 2000 Indians |
| Custer's Last Stand: When | June 25, 1876 Bighorn River, Montana |
| Custer's Last Stand: Why | Custer led trespassers to Black Hills Indian Reservation for gold and ordered Indians off land. Indians refused, but went on war path. |
| Wounded Knee: Who | 7th Cavalry Indians |
| Wounded Knee: What | Indian's Last Stand Massacre |
| Wounded Knee: When | December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee, South Dakota Indian Reservation |
| Wounded Knee: Why | Ghost dance was becoming more popular and alarmed the army. Army started seeking out Indian Chiefs |
| Wounded Knee: How | Deaf Indians' gun discharged and soldiers panicked and shot at disarmed Indians killing between 150-300 including some of own men also in crowd. |
| The Cowboys: Who | Cattle Drivers Teddy Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson Ronald Reagan Jesse James "Wild Bill" Hickok |
| The Cowboys: What | America's Hero Heroic Lawmen dueling at high noon Fighting off Indians Braving the elements |
| The Cowboys: When | 1867 to 1887 Wild West Kansas City Dodge City Cheyenne |
| Robber Barons: Who | JP Morgan Rockefeller Stanford Carnegie |
| Robber Barons: What | Businessmen with corrupt ways of gaining wealth. |
| Robber Barons: When | Late 19th Century US |
| Robber Barons: How | Insider Trading, Scandals Government paid over paid companies who did half the work Brides were taken and the Railroad monopolized everything |
| William "Boss" Tweed: Who | Corrupt Political Boss of Tammany Hall |
| William "Boss" Tweed: How | Controlled almost every deal that happened in New York, and blackmailed and took bribes. |
| Separate But Equal: What | States could legally segregate races in public accommodations. |
| Separate But Equal: Why | Plessy v. Furgeson Plessy was 7/8's white but tried to sit in railroad coach for whites and was denied and arrested because of Louisiana Law. |
| Jim Crow | Laws that enforced the separate but equal ruling of the supreme court. |
| Spanish-American War: Who | Spain United States Cuba |
| Spanish-American War: What | US wanted to liberate Cuba from Spain |
| Spanish-American War: Why | Newspapers and Powerful Businessmen wanted war USS Maine Blew up in Havana |
| Spanish-American War: When | 1898 |
| Gains from Spanish-American War | US controlled Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillipines Roosevelt became youngest President in US History |
| Panama Canal: Who | French US Panama Columbia |
| Panama Canal: What | A narrow stip of land connecting two masses of land |
| Panama Canal: When | 1880-1914 Panama |
| Panama Canal: Why | Trips from Atlantic to Pacific took 2 months US needed faster way to get ships from Sea to Sea |
| Panama Canal: How | French started building but got yellow fever, US helped Panama revolt from Columbia, and ended up controlling Canal, Americans started building canal. US Doctor William Gorgas found cure for milaria and yellow fever. |
| Kitty Hawk | Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane. North Carolina 1903 |
| The Wobblies | The Industrial Workers of the World Union |
| W.E.B. DuBois | First black to receive PHD from Harvard CoFounded the NAACP |
| Sitting Bull | Indian Holy Man Did not fight in battle of Little Bighorn After battle went to Canada Helped Revive the Ghost Dance Was killed by Indian Police |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the lightbulb Invented phonograph |
| St. Louis World's Fair | Louisiana 1904 Celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase Introduced the hotdog, ice tea, AC, and T-Shirts First Olympic Games in the US |
| Valentine's Day | February 14th Day devoted to Love Early Bishop was inspiration of St. Valentine's Day Romans called Cupid, son of Venus Greek called him Eros, son of Aphrodite |
| New York's Subway System | First station opened 1904 New York's Underground 1980s strike introduced wearing shoes to the office. A-Train goes from Upper Manhattan to Queens Time Square is busiest station |
| Phonograph | Invented by Edison 1878 "Mary had a little lamb" was first recorded song Earned Edison nickname of "Wizard of Menlo Park" |
| Medal of Honor | The highest military declaration Was created during the civil war |
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