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History 9 - Midterm Key Players
21 cards·by msstudygirl
Who was Geronimo?
Apache leader that constantly escaped American capture and led the Apache resistance
movement
Who was Crazy Horse?
Indian Chief who led Sioux forces at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Who was Sitting Bull?
Sioux leader who protested the demands for the Sioux to sell their reservation land in the
Black Hills of the Dakota Territory
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
American Colonel infamously known for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn
Who is Leland Stanford?
Part owner of the Central Pacific Railroad who paid the Chinese workers less than the white
laborers
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
first men to fly an airplane
Who is Joseph McCoy?
established a market where cattle were shipped on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
invented the telephone
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
invented the lightbulb; had over 1,000 patents
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
designed, built, and sold farm equipment
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
gained a monopoly in the steel industry
Who is J.P. Morgan?
American banker and financier
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
organized an oil monopoly
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
established a railroad monopoly
Who is Mary Cassatt?
first American to join the impressionist movement in France
Who is Luisa May Alcott?
novelist who wrote about young women and domestic life; wrote Little Women
Who is Terrence V. Powderly?
leader of the Knights of Labor
Who is Jane Addams?
founder of the Hull House
Who is Samuel Gompers?
leader of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Chester A. Arthur?
James A. Garfield's vice president
Who is James A. Garfield?
won the election of 1880, but months later was shot and killed by an angry citizen