test 3 Flashcards
who wasn’t a president of the united states during the reconstruction era?
James Buchanan
What was the site, where it occurred the massacre of 100 native women and children led by Colonel Chivington of Colorado?
Sand Creek
the natives of the midwestern plain depended on which animal for food, shelter and clothing?
Buffaloes
at the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), George Custer and his men were soundly defeated and killed. Who were the 2 famous Sioux (Lakota) leaders who defeated them?
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Which great inventor was nicknames «the Wizard of Menlo Park»?
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie became a billionaire of the Gilded Age by founding which corporation?
US steel
Corney island is renowned for being the site of a famous:
Theme park
What celebrities didn’t influence the 1920’s?
Mickey Mantle
Frederick taylor was an advocate of what?
Scientific management
what was the first mass-produced automobile?
Model T
Which road inaugurated in 1926 became known as «The Main Street of America»?
66
Who was a crime boss during the Prohibition era?
Lucky Luciano
The Dust bowl was a disaster that ravaged the Great Plains of the ___ during the 1930s.
Midwest
NOW is an organization that was formed by what group of militants?
feminists
who was the VP of Ronald Reagan?
George H. W. Bush
