History Final

John Marshall

a ranch hand on John Sutter’s ranch in California discovered gold

forty niners

gold miners

california gold rush

the movement of the forty niners westward

ghost towns

empty deserted where no one lived

California

became the 31 state to join the Union

Oregon Territory

included Oregon Washington and Idaho as well as part of Montana and Wyoming

Oregon country

Oregon territory was part of what

Oregon Trail

was almost 2000 miles long stretching over wild country and hazardous mountains

missionaries

were among the first to travel to Oregon

Dr Marcus Whitman and Narcissa

the most famous missionaries to Oregon

Narcissa

the first white woman to travel west of the Rockies

Independence, Missouri

where the Oregon Trail began

1859

when did Oregon become a state

President Millard Fillmore

sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan with a fleet of navy ships

Commodore Matthew Perry

task was open Japan for trade with the US

Commodore Matthew Perry

conducted the first Protestant worship service in Japan

Jonathan Goble

a young US Marine who accompanied Perry’s fleet

Townsend Harris

the first diplomatic representative that the US sent to Japan that was a devout Christian

Harris Treaty

signed in 1858 that opened Japan to Christian missionaries

Jonathan Goble

became the first Baptist missionary to Japan

Fort Sumter

the civil war the began when Confederate forced fired on what on April 12 1861

Confederate

had won the first battle of Fort Sumter of the civil war

Frederick Douglass

black statesman that was an active opponent of slavery that helped Lincoln reunite blacks

Union

sometimes called Yankees that wore blue uniforms

Confederate

army that wore gray and proudly waved their own Confederate battle flag

south

to stop the souths trade with Europe, president Lincoln sent Union ships to block all major seaports where

Merrimac

an old Confederate ship that the Union had sunk and covered it with iron plates

ironclad

destroyed wooden ships without receiving any harm itself

Monitor

ironclad that the Union built

Emancipation Proclamation

what freed the slaves

13th amendment

amendment that gave all slaves freedom

William Harry Carney

rescued the Stars and Stripes from a wounded color sergeant in the heat of the Battle of Fort Wagner

Ulysses S Grant

leader of the Union Troops

Robert E Lee

head of the Confederate army

Stonewall Jackson

General Lee’s most valuable assistant

Ulysses S Grant

Lincoln’s most valuable general

Ulysses S Grant

nicknamed the Unconditional Surrender Grant

Stonewall Jackson

one of the greatest military heroes of the civil war and one fo the greatest generals of all time

Battle fo Bull Run

Stonewall earned his nickname at what battle

Christian testimony

Stonewall Jackson had an outstanding what

Civil War

Stonewall Jackson lost his life in what war

North

during the first two years of the civil war what lost more battles than it won

Battle of Gettysburg

the turning point of the civil war that the south lost

General T Sherman

Grant sent him to capture Atlanta Georgia

Richmond

the capital of the Confederate States

Appomattox Court House VA

surrender of the Confederates happened where

no state could leave the union

there would be no more slavery in the US

what two things did the civil war settle

John Wilkes Booth

shot Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

VP that replaced Lincoln

reservations

land which the US had set aside for the Indians

Cyrus McCormick

who invented the Mechanical Reaper

longhorns

in TX they were raising large herd of half wild cattle called

American cowboys

the men that the rancher hired to take care of his cattle were the

branded

cowboys did what to cattle with a hot iron

cow towns

towns with railroads

stampede

when cattle would run in one direction due to a scary sound

Buffalo Bill

William F Cody

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

traveling show about the west

Annie Oakley

an amazing markswoman she could hit a dime tossed into the air from 30 paces away

sitting bull

sound Indian chief who helped react an Indian attack on a stagecoach

wild bill Hickok

the Indian scout and town marshal

homestead act

said that any family that settled in certain areas of the west could receive 160 acres of land

land rush

people would line up in wagons and on horses waiting to claim their 160 acres was known as

Oklahoma land rush in 1889

thousands of people lined up along the borders of OK to gain land

progress

moving forward to improve our way of life

Clermont

name of Fultons steamboat

Robert Fulton

invented the world’s first successful steamboat

Samuel Morse

believed that messages could be sent over long distances through a wire by electricity

Samuel Morse

created the telegraph

Morse Codes

system of dots and dashes tapped over telegraph wires

Alexander Graham Bell

created the telephone

Thomas Alva Edison

greatest inventor of history

electric light

motion pictures

phonograph

office machinery

some of Thomas Edisons creations

Thomas Edison

said “genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration”

Henry Ford

dream was to make an inexpensive car that nearly every American family could afford

assembly line

Ford developed this which he used to produce his Model T

Henry Ford

he was the first to use the idea of the assembly line to build cars

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

created the first shoe lasting machine

Norbert Rillieux

incited a sugar refining process which greatly reduced the cost of renting sugar and revolutionized the sugar industry

Granville T Woods

invented a steam boiler furnace automatic air breaks an egg incubator a telegraph deice for communication between moving trains and train stations and more than 15 eclectic deices for railroads

Garrett A Morgan

famous invention was a gas mask and traffic signal

Wilbur and Orville Wright

created the airplane

Robert H Goddard

launched the first successful rocket liquid fueled rocket ever built

William H Seward

was visited by the Russian government

Alaska

had great riches in gold and natural resources such as coal and petroleum that no one knew about

1896

when was gold discovered and the Alaska Gold Rush began

AK

became the 49th state in January 1959

Captain James Cook

discovered Hawaii

pineapple and sugar cane

Americans came to HI to raise what

1959

when did the US Congress final cited to accept HI as our 50th state

Florida

one of Spain’s last possessions on the New World

Maine

government sent this US ship to Cuba to protect Americans living there

April 25, 1898

government declared war on Spain in order to set Cuba free when

Admiral George Dewey

when the way began this man from the US navy was sent to the Philippine Islands

Theodore Roosevelt

headed the rough riders

battle of San Juan Hill

the rough riders played an important part in the winning the most important land battle fought in the Spanish American war known as what

Philippines

Guam

Puerto Rico

as a result of the Spanish American war, Spain gave Cuba her freedom, and the US received several islands that had previously belonged to Spain which were

Theodore Roosevelt

best loved President who was nicknamed Teddy by the American people

Theodore Roosevelt

assistant secretary of the navy but resigned when the Spanish American War of 1898 broke out because he wanted to fight for his country

Teddy Roosevelt

said “speak softly and carry a big stick”