Struggles! Flashcards
In what year did the Census announce that there was no longer a discernable frontier?
1890
What is the date for the Battle at Little Big Horn?
June 15th , 1876
Where does Chief Young Joseph attempt to flee to?
Canada
Which railroad starts in Omaha and heads west?
Union Pacific Railroad
What year do the railroads meet up?
1869
What was the first major government department?
The Department of Agriculture
What turned over federal land to states to be sold to fund education?
The Morril Act
What established county agents whose job was to study the soil climate in the county?
The Smith-Lever Act
Which railroad starts in San Francisco and heads east?
Central Pacific Railroad
What was the first communication organization in the world?
Western Union
Who merges with Morgan to create the U.S. Steel Cor.?
Carnegie
Who discovers alternating current?
Tesla
First democrat president since the Civil War?
Cleveland
Who was the first president since 1875 who was in both parties?
Benjamin Harrison
What was the biggest organization to exist in American History?
Standard Oil
What was the first attempt to regulate buismess and the railroads in America?
Granger Laws
What was the first government railroad regulatory agency?
The Interstate Commerce Act
What year did Ford invent the assembly line?
1903
People left ________ because of the political strife.
Germany
Who was the only president to get married in the white house and serve 2 inconsecutive terms?
Cleveland
Which elected president in 1880 was later assassinated?
Garfield
Where did a majority of the people migrate from?
the Southern Eastern
Who built the mission settlement houses?
Jane Addams
What was the most popular sport?
Baseball
What was the term that was named becasue of the color of the ink?
Yellow Journalism
