U.S. History, A Beka Grade 8, Chap. 16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dwight L. Moody | Best-known American evangelist of the late 19th century. |
| Jane Addams | Founder of Hull House, a famous settlement house in Chicago. |
| Jesse James | A noted train robber of the Old West. |
| Wyatt Earp | Former sheriff of Dodge City, who with his brothers killed several outlaw gunmen at the Battle of O.K. Corral. |
| Crazy Horse | Sioux Chief who led the Indian attack on General George Custer. |
| General George Custer | Leader of the U.S. cavalry troops defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Geronimo | Leader of the Apache tribe in the West; surrendered in 1886. |
| Joseph Glidden | Invented barbed wire. |
| Oliver H. Kelly | Founded the Grange. |
| James A. Garfield | Republican President (1881); assassinated after only four months in office. |
| Chester Arthur | Vice President who became President when Garfield was assassinated; served 1881-1885. |
| Grover Cleveland | First Democrat to win the Presidency after the Civil War; only President to marry while in the White House and to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-1889, 1893-1897). |
| Samuel Gompers | Organized the American Federation of Labor. |
| Benjamin Harrison | Republican President; served 1889-1893. |
| William McKinley | Republican President; served 1897-1901; assassinated in 1901. |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democrat candidate for President who supported the free coinage of silver; great American orator. |
| Louisa May Alcott | Author of "Little Women." |
| Mark Twain | Pen name of Samuel Clemens; famous American author of such classics as "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." |
| Lew Wallace | Author of "Ben Hur." |
| Charles M. Sheldon | Author of "In His Steps." |
| Walt Whitman | Well-known American poet of such works as "O Captain, My Captain." |
| Emily Dickinson | Wrote short, untitled poetry which was not published until after her death. |
| James Whitcomb Riley | "The Hoosier poet" who wrote folksy poetry in the Hoosier dialect of rural Indiana; wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin." |
| Winslow Homer, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington | Famous artists of the late 19th century. |
| Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives | Painted famous prints that provide a pictorial record of American life in the 19th century. |
| John Philip Sousa | "The March King"; famous bandmaster of the U.S. Marine Band known for his song, "Stars and Stripes Forever." |
| Ira Sankey, P.P. Bliss, Fanny Crosby | Christian composers of many famous gospel songs and hymns. |
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