| A | B |
|---|
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| Chinese immigrants | helped build transcontinental RR |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Central Pacific meets Union Pacific |
| Great Plains | Homestead Act encouraged settlement |
| Kansas City, Denver, Abilene | railheads |
| Plains Indians | followed the buffalo |
| Chief Black Kettle | surrendered at Sand Creek |
| Sand Creek | massacre of Cheyenne Indians |
| George Custer | killed at Little Bighorn |
| Little Bighorn | S.D. slaughter of US soldiers |
| Crazy Horse & Sittlng Bull | leaders at Little Bighorn |
| Chief Joseph | Nez Perce "I will fight no more forever." |
| Wounded Knee | massacre ended Indian Wars |
| Ghost Dancers | Indian religion |
| Black Hills of South Dakota | gold found |
| E. Remington | invented typewriter |
| Elijah McCoy | invented oil cup |
| Margaret Knight | invented paper bag with flat bottom |
| Granville Woods | improved telegraph, telephone, and transportation systems |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented telephone |
| Thomas Edison | invented light bulb, phonograph among 1000's |
| Henry Bessemer | invented steel process |
| Andrew Carnegie | leader of steel industry |
| John D. Rockefeller | Standard Oil Corporation |
| philanthropists | gives large sums to help people |
| Knights of Labor | first labor union |
| Samuel Gompers | 1st leader of AFL |
| American Federation of Labor | large group of trade unions |
| Lewis Latimer | improved light bulb, diagrammed telephone |
| Ellis Island (New York) | east coast immigrant station |
| Angel Island (San Francisco) | west coast immigrant station |
| Emma Lazarus | "Give me your tired, your poor..." |
| Statue of Liberty | gift from France |
| Frederic Auguste Bartholdi | designed Statue of Liberty |
| Chicago, Illinois | grew as transportation center |
| Nikola Tesla | found ways to send electricity thru wires |
| Jane Addams | reformer opened Hull House in Chicago |
| Pittsburgh | "Steel City" |
| Upton Sinclair | wrote The Jungle about meatpacking |
| John Muir | conservationist influenced T. Roosevelt |
| Pres. Theodore Roosevelt | started national parks |
| Carrie C. Catt | fought for women's suffrage |
| NAACP | worked to improve rights of African Americans |
| W.E.B. DuBois | wrote about racial equality |
| Ku Klux Klan | promoted violence against other races |
