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Chapter 17-19 Test Review
US History Review
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History
11th Grade
11/08/2010

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Most influential spokesman for African Americans
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Booker T Washington
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Civil war hero elected President in 1868
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Grant
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Promoted and privately founded the Great Northern Railroad
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James J. Hill
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Invented the sleeping car
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George Pullman
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Sioux Medicine Man
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Sitting Bull
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Chief of Nez Perce; led tribe to Canadian border only to be captured
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Chief Joseph
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Chief of the Sioux
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Red Cloud
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Led the apaches
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Geronimo
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Scout for Custer
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Calamity Jane
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Legendary figure born in Bangor, Maine
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Paul Bunyan
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name of Indian Messiah
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wovoka
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inventor of telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Who invented he Chilled Iron Plow
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James oliver
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Invented the Light bulb
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Thomas Edison
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300 uses for the peanut
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George Washington Carver
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Invented Barbed Wire
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Joseph Glidden
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Drilled first oil well in US
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Edwin L. Drake
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Invented new methods of producing low cost steel
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Henry Bessemer
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Founded US Steel Company
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J.P Morgan
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French tearm meaning Letting Business do as it pleases
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Laissez-faire
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Whhen business has no competition
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Monopoly
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what is an econimic system in which individuals are free to follow their economic pursuits as they see fit
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Capitalism
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Work as if you are working for God not for man
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Pretestant Work ethic
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a person who manages and organizes a business undertaking
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Entrepreneur
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Northern politicians looking for opportunities in the south
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Carpetbaggers
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a tax to pay in order to vote
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Poll tax
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The President can not get rid of a civil officer appoited by Congress with out approval from Congress
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Tenure of Office act
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abolished slavery
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13th ammendment
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extended citizenship to former slaves
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14th ammendment
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gave blacks right to vote
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15th ammendment
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What act stimulated western expansion by giving 160 acres of land to live on and improve
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Homestead act
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Act that broke up tribal lands
offerent 160 acres and citizenship if indians gae up their way of life and adopeted the american way of life
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dawes act
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what act does federal funds to help high schools provide courses in agriculture
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smith hughes act
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act which granted 30,000 acres of land to each state for each sen/rep to establish a state university
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Morrill Act
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What is the "Pittsburgh of the south"
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Birmingham
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What battle was Custer's last stand?
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Battle of little big horn
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Last battle between Indians and Federal troops
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Wounded Knee
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Centenial state
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colorado
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favorite route of cowboys driving cattle north
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chisholm trail
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Where the central and union pacific met
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Promontory point
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3 factors of american prosperity in late 19th century
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New Inventions
Natural resources
large labor supply
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