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illinois studies
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50
History
9th Grade
12/12/2011

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Indians for whom the state is named.
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The Illini Indian Tribe
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What Marguette and Jolliet were looking for?
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The waters of the Mississippi River or a Northwest passage
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Why was Tonti successful?
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What was the Fort on Top of the Rock?
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Fort St. Louis
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French settlement as a so success?
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Fell under British rule at end of French and Indian War, but had a good settlement
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George Rogers Clark
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Daring leader of American Revolutionary forces in Illinois
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What city did Du Sable create?
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Chicago
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Fort Dearborn Massacre
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Destroyed early Chicago (4 years later Americans returned to Chicago River to restore fort)
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Pope and Illinois being admitted as a state
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Enlarged territory, had to have 40,000 people for statehood, and chosen as free state
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Which one was NOT a state Capital?
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Kaskaskia, Vandalia, and Springfield-state capitals
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Type of housing Illinois early settlers used
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Log cabin with clay, sticks, and wood chips between, used fireplace to cook
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Why did Blackhawk com back to Illinois?
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Game was scarce and the soil was to difficult to plow in Iowa
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President who fought for Illinois in the Blackhawk War
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Abraham Lincoln
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Blackhawk's last battle
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Captured in Blackhawk War by whites and died in new reservation in Iowa
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The path Jackson took the Indians through
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800 miles to the new territory of Oklahoma, many indians died because of it
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Lovejoy's death
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Shot to death protecting his printing press
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Canal that runs through Illinois
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Illinois and Michigan Canal-maybe Erie Canal?
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The Mormons in Illinois
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Who was the Mormon leader when in Illinois?
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Brigham Young or Joseph Smith
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Railroads in Illinois
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Helped Civil War and faster transportation
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Name the First University in Illinois
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U of I
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The harsh laws in Illinois against African Americans
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"Black codes"-had to carry freedom cert., no rights in court, obedient or lazy=whipped, and can be kidnapped
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Lincoln and the Senator seat in Illinois
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Lincoln-Douglas debate?
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Lincoln and the senator seat
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A famous Civil War general
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Ulysses S. Grant
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The start of the Chicago Fire
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Cow kicked over lantern in O'Leary Barn
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The main cause of the destruction of the Chicago Fire
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Wood buildings and no firemen helping
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What was the first "skyscraper" in Chicago?
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Home Insurance Company Building
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A new plow for Illinois farmers
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Came from Sheffield Steel saw blade by John Deere (cleaned itself and cut sharply)
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Mail-order house from Illinois
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First in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward
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Illinois meat processing plant
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Founded by Armour and Plankinton in 1862-better to bring live animals to Chicago
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the "man who owned State Street"
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Potter Palmer
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What was the purpose of Hull House as established by Jane Adams?
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Educational center, a second home, and neighborhood meeting place
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Pullman
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During depression cut pay 25% and refused to lower rent and utility charges in village/pullman strike
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What was a problem with the Chicago River?
Definition
Was polluted because it flows backward
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The Black Sox Scandal
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Players accused of taking bribes to World Series for Cincinnati Red Legs
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Mr. Cub
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Ernie Banks
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Galloping Ghost
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Harold "Red" Grange of U of I football
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Author wrote about a graveyard in Southern Illinois
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Edgar Lee Masters
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Wrote a Biography on Lincoln
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Carl Sandburg
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Who ran Chicago's Mob?
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Al Capone
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Speakeasies
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Saloons in secret locations (legal liquor sales closed)
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Bugs Moran
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Controlled illegal liquor traffic on Chicago's North side (sold "Old log cabin" whiskey
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The Presidents from Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan
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What event show Daily was losing power?
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Violence erupted on Chicago when demonstators against war went to Chicago to nominate a peace candidate
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The state bird
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Cardinal
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The state tree
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"White Oak"
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What is the State Insect?
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Monarch Butterfly
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The state Slogan
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"Land of Lincoln"
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What is the State Flower?
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Violet
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