19th Century America Study Guide

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John Jacob Astor 7x 16.7% stumper $767 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 1995 By around 1800 this American began marketing his furs to China

DJ $800 1997 To extend his influence over the Pacific Northwest, he founded the Pacific Fur Company in 1810

J $1,200 DD 2009 In 1822 he opened the western branch of his American Fur Company in St. Louis

Brigham Young 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 2001 In 1850 this religious leader became the first governor of the Utah territory

DJ $3,000 DD 2012 An 1877 cartoon showed 12 widows crying in bed, mourning the death of this man

DJ $400 1997 He served as governor of the Utah territory until President Buchanan removed him in 1857

Boss Tweed 4x $425 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1991 This boss of NYC's Tammany Hall was imprisoned 3 times in the 1870s & died in jail

DJ $800 1996 In December 1875 this former commissioner of NYC's public works escaped from jail & fled to Cuba

J $300 1998 This New York "boss" fled to Europe but was captured by Spaniards who recognized him from a cartoon

Susan B. Anthony 4x $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 2019 Born in Mass. in 1820, she had abolition & temperance as her main causes before focusing on women's rights

DJ $600 1997 In 1888 this suffragette organized the International Council of Women

DJ $1,600 2002 In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & this woman established the National Woman Suffrage Association

Seward 4x $350 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1995 He failed to get Congress to annex Hawaii & purchase some Caribbean islands, but did get them to buy Alaska

DJ $400 1991 Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia

DJ $400 1985 Wounded in Lincoln conspiracy, he survived & went on to arrange Alaska purchase

Andrew Jackson 4x $1,375 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1992 In 1821 he became Florida's provisional governor; 8 years later he became president

J $1,500 DD 1990 When he didn't get along with this President, John C. Calhoun resigned as Vice President in 1832

DJ $1,600 2021 For some reason the Anti-Masonic Party chose onetime Freemason William Wirt to challenge this incumbent president in 1832

Stephen Foster 4x 25.0% stumper $475 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1993 His first successful song, "Oh! Susanna", published in 1848, earned him $100

DJ $800 2012 In 1848 he sold his song "Oh! Susanna" for $100

J $100 1995 His song "Old Folks at Home" originally appeared under Edwin P. Christy's name

Horace Greeley 4x $667 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $400 1990 In April 1841 this bigwig began publishing the New York Tribune

DJ $600 1993 After a brief term in Congress, 1848-49, this newspaper editor never held a major political office again

J $1,000 2019 This publisher founded the New York Tribune as a Whig paper & later helped start the Republican party in 1854

Custer 4x $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2004 "My Life on the Plains" was an 1874 book by this "boy general" & Indian fighter

DJ $1,200 2014 (Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Deadwood, South Dakota.) This is what it looks like now, but in 1875, Deadwood was just amining campthat sprung up after this lieutenant colonel & his 7th Cavalry found that the Black Hills were rich in gold

J $300 1988 Wild Bill Hickok scouted for this flamboyant cavalry leader

(George) Pullman 4x $800 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2008 A cabinetmaker by trade, he developed the railway sleeping car dubbed the "Pioneer" in the 1860s

J $1,000 DD 2003 In 1863 he patented his popular folding upper berth

J $800 2011 On May 11, 1894 workers at this Chicago railroad car plant began a strike that lasted almost 3 months

(Andrew) Johnson 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1994 Thaddeus Stevens, who led the fight for this pres.'s impeachment, was so frail he had to be carried to the trial

DJ $400 1998 The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto

J $200 1995 He never appeared at his 1868 impeachment trial

Worth Knowing (38)

vice president 3 the Monroe Doctrine 3 Texas 3 Aaron Burr 3 Thomas Jefferson 3 John Deere 3 Austin 3 Andrew Carnegie 3 Samuel Morse 3 Wounded Knee 2 the Whigs 2 the Johnstown Flood 2 the Battle of Bunker Hill 2 Stephen Douglas 2 slavery 2 Ohio 2 Mexico 2 Mathew Brady 2 Louisiana 2 Indiana 2 Frederick Douglass 2 flogging 2 Chicago 2 California 2 Atlantic City 2 Abraham Lincoln 2 the Union Pacific 2 Thomas Edison 2 Senator from Illinois 2 James K. Polk 2 Edgar Allan Poe 2 Montgomery, Alabama 2 Melville Dewey 2 John Sutter 2 John Muir 2 Grant 2 Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt 2 Amelia Bloomer 2

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