1. Unit 1 Review Cultural Literacy

2. Unit Objectives
To identify key figures and leaders of the American West and know their impacts
To identify iconic photographs and symbols of the frontier era
To identify key figures and leaders of the Civil War and know their impacts
To identify iconic photographs and symbols of the Civil War era

3. The American West

4. Promontory Point: The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

5. Monument to Crazy Horse

6. Sitting Bull: Helped defeat Custer at Little Big Horn, refused to stop doing things like the Ghost Dance, Killed at Wounded Knee

7. General George Custer: Killed at Little Big Horn

8. Chief Joseph: Tried to lead the Nez Perce to Canada but was stopped just shy of the border and forced onto a reservation; Made the famous quote “I will fight no more forever”

9. The Civil War

10. Harriet Tubman: Leader of the Underground Railroad

11. Robert E. Lee: Leading Confederate general

12. Frederick Douglass: Former slave who led the Abolition Movement

13. Abraham Lincoln: Only 3rd party candidate to ever win the presidency, his election caused 7 Southern states to secede, he used “conscription” and jailed some protestors

14. John Wilkes Booth: Assassinated Lincoln, killed before he could be tried