1. WESTWARD EXPANSION Key Figures

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
SS.912.A.2.7 Review the Native American experience.
SS.912.A.3.1 Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers' responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

3. Abraham Lincoln
Signed the Homestead Act of into law.

4. The “Big Four” Central Pacific Railroad
Leland Stanford, President
Founder of Stanford University
Collins Potter Huntington, Vice President
Mark Hopkins, Treasurer
Charles Crocker, Construction Supervisor
Founder of Southern Pacific Railroad

5. Joseph Glidden
Inventor of Barbed Wire

6. Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Organized the movement of thousands of black colonists, known as Exodusters, to found settlements in Kansas

7. Founders of “The Grange” (Patrons of Husbandry)
William Saunders
William M. Ireland
Caroline Arabella Hall
Francis M. McDowell
Oliver Hudson Kelley

8. George Armstrong Custer
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
lead the 7th Calvary at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
He and all of his battalion, which included two of his brothers, were killed.
The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand."
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9. Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Teton Dakota Indian chief who united the Sioux tribes in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains.
Defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Joined Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show.

10. Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was an Oglala Sioux Indian chief who fought against removal to an Indian reservation. He took part in the Battle of Little Big Horn.

11. Grover Cleveland Signed the Interstate Commerce Act into law.
Signed the Dawes Act into law.

12. Henry Dawes
A Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, known for the Dawes Act, intended to promote assimilation of Indians by ending tribal government and control of communal lands

13. Charles Macune Head of the Southern Farmer’s Alliance
Opposed the formation of the People’s Party

14. James B. Weaver
American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism
Ran for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist candidate (1892).

15. William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was a liberal leader and great speaker who ran three times for the U.S. presidency.
Gave “Cross of Gold” speech supporting the use of silver and gold in trade.