KEY PEOPLE + what they did

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

firebrand white abolitionist who led violent uprising against slavery (1859)

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 2

Industrialist and philanthropist

Question 3

John Chivington

Answer 3

Led ‘Bloodless 3rd’ against Black Kettle’s village at Sand Creek massacre

Question 4

Crazy Horse

Answer 4

Native American War leader (Oglala Sioux) at the Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 5

George A Custer

Answer 5

US Army officer, Colonel 7th Cavalry, defeated by Crazy Horse at LBH (1876)

Question 6

Frederick Douglas

Answer 6

Escaped former slave, lecturer, writer and important abolitionist leader

Question 7

William DuBois

Answer 7

Harvard academic, part of educated black elite (1900) became a profesor

Question 8

John Illif

Answer 8

Cattle rancher - set up ‘open range’ ranching on the Plains from 1866

Question 9

Andrew Jackson

Answer 9

7th President of the US - introduced Homestead Act

Question 10

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 10

3rd President of USA - author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Question 11

Andrew Johnson

Answer 11

17th President of the USA - tasked w/ ‘reconstruction’ after Lincolns death

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

16th President of the USA - emancipated slaves

Question 13

James Marshall

Answer 13

Struck gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, California, Jan 1848

Question 14

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 14

26th President of the USA, friends with Quanah Parker the last Comanche chief

Question 15

Sitting Bull

Answer 15

spiritual leader of Lakota Sioux, helped defeat Custer 1876

Question 16

Harriet Tubman

Answer 16

freed slave - helped others escaped to North on Underground Railroad

Question 17

Nat Turner

Answer 17

led a bloody slave rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia, August 1831

Question 18

Brigham Young

Answer 18

leader of Mormons 1847, led them to Great Salt Lake, Utah

Question 19

George Washington

Answer 19

1st President of USA, 1789-97