Unit 16 Test Flashcards
Andrew ___ believed that a ___ was the best gift to give to a community.
Carnegie; library
Congress created an ___ to decide who won the presidential election of 1876. They chose Rutherford B. ___. the next presidents were James Abram ___ and Chester Alan ___.
Electoral Commission; Hayes; Garfield; Arthur
The ___ changed the lives of the ___, Sierra Miwok, Maidu, and ___ Nations who lived there
gold rush; Yokut; Washoe
The ___ built frontier forts in the West. African American soldiers who served in the forts were nicknames ___.
U.S. Army; Buffalo Soldiers
___ led the Lakota in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and ___ died in the battle.
Crazy Horse; Custer
Thomas ___ invented a ___ and a ___.
Edison; phonograph and light bulb
The Ingalls family’s Little House in the Big Woods was in ___. Their homestead was in ___ Territory. Laura and Almanzo’s farm called Rocky Ridge in ___.
Wisconsin; Dakota; Missouri
Mark Twain called the period of history in the late 1800s, when many entrepreneurs were becoming extremely wealthy, the ___.
Gilded Age
Two common homestead homes in the Great Plans were the ___ and the ___.
sod house; dugout
The Spanish meaning of Sierra Nevada is “___ mountain range.” It is home to Mounty ___, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states and to Lake ___.
snow-covered; Whitney; Tahoe
