Abeka Land I Love chapters 14-18
The most famous Ace of World War 1?
"Eddie" Rickenbacker
By 1865 what was the Confederate dollar worth?
1 cent
How many states joined the Confederacy?
11
What year did the U. S. census say the frontier was settled?
1890
About how many men died in the Civil War?
600,000
what general fought at Fredricksburg?
A. E. Burnside
Who ran for Presidency as a Union party candidate in 1864?
Abraham Lincoln
What inventor did Thomas Watson work with?
Alexander Bell
What sides were against each other in World War 1?
Allied Powers Against the Central Powers
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Bloody battle fought in Tennessee
Antietam
bloodiest single day of the Civil War
Antietam
When did the U. S. enter World War 1?
April 6, 1917
Whose assassination provided an excuse to start a war?
Archduke Ferdinand
General Lew Wallace wrote what book?
Ben-Hur
What President was influential in admitting six western states during his term?
Benjamin Harrison
Which Confederate general won the Battle of Chickamauga?
Braxton Bragg
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
The admission of what state in 1850 temporarily upset the balance between free and slave states?
California
battle in which the Confederate army split and lured the Union army into a trap
Chancellorsville
Who became president after James Garfield was assassinated?
Chester Arthur
Who legislated the Pendleton Act?
Chester Arthur
Who was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"?
Clara Barton
known as the "Centennial State"
Colorado
Who were the "Reds"?
Communist terrorists
Which chief led the Indians into battle at Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
Name the two artists who provided us with a pictoral history of American life in the 19th century.
Currier and Ives
What former shoe salesmen became a great evangelist across America?
D. L. Moody
what general fought at New Orleans?
David Farragut
What was the name given to those who served under General Pershing?
Doughboys
Who drilled the first oil well?
Edwin Drake
Which poet's works were not published until after her death?
Emily Dickenson
What hymnist published "Blessed Assurance" and many other hymns in the late 1800s?
Fanny Crosby
Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
What artist became well known for painting cowboys and Indians?
Frederic Remington
The Populist party supported a _____ policy.
Free silver movement
Which two men met at Appomattax Court House to discuss terms of surrender?
General Robert E. Lee (Confederate) and General Ulysses S. Grant (Union)
what general fought at Antietam?
George B. McClellan
What Confederate general led the dramatic charge on Cemetery Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
George E. Pickett
What country practiced unrestricted submarine warfare?
Germany
bloody battle fought in Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
First Democrat to be elected President after the Civil War
Grover Cleveland
Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
What legislative act opened the Great Plains for settlement in 1862?
Homestead Act
regulated railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
provided for examinations for civil-service workers
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Who was D. L. Moody's songleader?
Ira Sankey
Who took charge of the FBI's investigations into Communist activities?
J. Edgar Hoover
Which Southern General did Lee call the "eyes of the army"?
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart
What President was shot only four months in office by Charles J. Guiteau?
James Garfield
Which poet became famous as "the Hoosier poet"?
James Whitcomb Riley
Who made their fortune in the oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
Who was nicknamed "the March King"?
John Philip Sousa
Who shot President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who invented barbed wire?
Joseph Glidden
what general fought at Chancellorsville?
Joseph Hooker
What author wrote the famous novel "Little Women"?
Louisa May Alcott
Who called the period from 1865-1900 the "Gilded Age"?
Mark Twain
Which man was saved at the Pacific Garden Mission and later founded 67 rescue missions?
Mel Trotter
Where was gold discovered in 1858?
Nevada
When did Germany surrender?
November 11, 1918
in the North a man could avoid a draft by...
Paying an exemption fee of $300
stated that segregation was legal
Plessy v. Ferguson
What officer was responsible for capturing John Brown in Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the greatest hero of World War 1?
Sergeant Alvin York
John C. Calhoun was a famous "state's rights" spokesman from what state?
South Carolina
Which man introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
Which amendment made former slaves citizens of the U.S.?
The 14th
What agreement ended Reconstruction in the South?
The Compromise of 1876
What act provided stiff penalties for anyone who gave information to the enemy or messed with military recruiting?
The Espionage Act
What letter was sent between Mexico and Germany that promised Mexico part of the U. S.?
The Zimmerman Note
What event angered the American people?
The sinking of the Lusitania
Who is the Confederate general that won his nickname at Bull Run?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Who is considered to be the greatest inventor in American history?
Thomas Edison
what general fought at Vicksburg?
U. S. Grant
Who won the Presidental election of 1868?
U.S. Grant
What President favored the gold standard?
William McKinley
What Union general burned Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbia?
William Techumseh Sherman
What was the first war to be fought on a global scale (1914-1918)?
World War 1
first state to allow women's suffrage
Wyoming
What did the Otis Brothers produce?
elevators
What is the term for one who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product?
entrepreneur
The Emancipation Proclamation did what?
freed slaves in the states that had seceded
Did the U. S. join the League of Nations?
no
George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for the...
peanut
What were Southerners who helped carpetbaggers called?
scalawags
What was a common type of housing for settlers on the prairie?
sod houses
How did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
steel
What did sir Henry Bessemer develop?
steel-making process
What amendment outlawed slavery?
the 13th
What area did the Sioux Indians regard as sacred?
the Black Hills
What legislative act encouraged the Indians to take up farming or ranching?
the Dawes Act
What Confederate navy ship fought against the Moniter?
the Merrimac/Virginia
What was the first modern skyscraper?
the Wainwright Building
What was Thomas Alva Edison's most famous invention?
the incandesent lightbulb
What invention is Christopher Sholes remembered for?
the typwriter
After the Confederates surrendered what were they allowed to keep?
their weapons and animals
What took place on Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869
workers completed the first transcontinental railroad
