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| Best known evangelist of the 2nd half of the 19th century.Founded the Moody Bible Institute |
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| Founded the setlement house Hull House |
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| Noted train robber who was killed by one of his own men. |
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| Met with his 2 brothers in Tombstone, Arizona where they killed several outlaw gunmen |
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| Led thousand of Indians against General George Armstrong Custer @ Little Bighorn and killed every man includig Custer |
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| Crazy Horse and the Indians fighting with him killed Custer |
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| Leadder of the Apache tribe who surrendered |
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| Came up with the idea of spinning steel strandsi into barbed wire |
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| Won the Presidential election of 1880 and was shot and killed after 4 months in office |
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| President Garfield's vice president who became president when Garfield died. Sponsored the Pendleton Civil Service Act as a memorial to President Garfield. |
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| Won the election of 1884 he was the only president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms. |
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| Organnized the American Federation of Labor. He opposed socialism and warned angainst violence and anarchy.Supported the use of strikes |
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| One of the greatest orators in American history. |
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| A.K.A. Samuel Clemens. He wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
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| Wrote Ben-Hur the most popular book in America at the end of the 19th century |
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| Wrote In His Stepps. In which the characters asked themselves what would Jesus do? |
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| Known for his poems about the energy and hopes of the American worker. His most famous poem O Captain, My Captain was prompted by the death of Abraham Lincoln |
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| Wrote short untitled poems most of which were not published until after her death |
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| What Mark Twain called the Age of Industry |
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| What Mark Twain called the Age of Industry |
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| Offered land and American citizenship to any Indian family who would take up farming or ranching |
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| Land set aside by the government for Indian settlement |
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| opened the great plains for settlement |
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| National organization founded by Oliver H. Kelly. Was started as an social association for farm families but, became a politically active organization. |
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| Party dedicated to mantaining and increasing the number of greenbacks in circulation |
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| Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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| Provided for competitive examinations of civil-service workers |
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| Organizations that allowed workers to meet and discuss working conditions, wages, and other common interests |
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| Labor union started by Samuel Gompers |
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| Where a strike at which someone threw a bomb into the crowd killing seven people took place |
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| a politically active farm group |
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| Inersate Commerce Commision |
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| First government agency to regulateprivate business |
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| political party that wanted free coinage of silver |
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| voters can start a petition and begin the passage of a law without legislature proposing it first |
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| refers a a proposed law directly to the voters their decision is final and does not need the consent of the legislature |
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| Act that broke up large companies |
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| Strike at the Carnegie steel mill in homestead Pennsylvania |
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| Case in which the Supreme court declared that segregation was legal in the U.S. |
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| Act that made gold the only standard for monetary value |
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| the telling of a story through scenery, cusoms and dialects of a particular region |
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