US History Test 7 Chapter 18

Who was the Canadian-American promoter of the Great Noerthern who used private funds and was forced to plan carefully and build economically?

Who was the oragnizer behind the integrated rail system?

This business tycoon built great empires as well and came to control the rails of the Southwest.

This man introduced the sleeping car, which helped to make long distance travel by train a more pleasant experience.

Railroad safety and efficiency was greatly influenced when this man introduced the air brake in 1869 which it made it possible for the enginneer to apply brakes to all train cars at the same time.

He was one of the popular heroes of the era of railroad men. He died with one hand on the throttle and one on the brake, trying to save the lives of the passengers on his crashing "Cannonball."

This man introduced the steel plow and this other man produced an improved chilled-iron plow which proved to be a match for the stubborn prairie sod.

This man is an Illinois farmer who invented a practical fence made of barbed wire.

This man's mills in Minneapolis were well on the way to becoming the largest flour mills in the world.

This person is a powerful Sioux chief, in an effort to protect Sioux hunting grounds, forced the U.S. Army to abandon three forts in the area and to cease all eforts to build the road through Sioux territory.

This man is known among the Indians as the "White Chief with Yellow Hair."

The warriors were led by chiefs Rain-in-the-Face and this man who was strongly influenced by the medicine man.

He is known as the medicine man.

He was a paiute who as a child had been adopted by a white family and raised in a home where he heard the Bible read daily, instituted a new religion, which was a perversion of Christianity.

In 1877, they went on the warpath under the leadership of their noble.