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| Andrew Jackson | President of the US - 1830s ... anti-Native Americans/Indians |
| Calamity Jane | larger than life woman out of the West - "jack of all trades" - she did it all |
| Capt. John C. Fremont | US soldier who defeated Mexico in California |
| Cherokees | Native Americans - originally from Georgia - forced on "Trail of Tears" march to Oklahoma |
| Chief Joseph | last of the Nez Perce' - Native Americans/Indians were forced to give up their land in the NW part of the country - Oregon |
| Daniel Boone | Kentucky frontiersmen / built the Wilderness Road between Tennessee & Kentucky |
| Davey Crockett | Kentucky frontiersman - died fighting at the Battle of the Alamo |
| Exodusters | African-Americans who settled/migrated to the West - for a better life |
| Forty-niners | people who went to California in the year 1849 - hoping to get rich |
| Lewis & Clark | they explored land gained from the Louisiana Purchase - made maps of the area - opened up a whole other part of the country |
| Mormons | a religious group which settled in Utah for religious freedom |
| Sam Houston | leader of Texas movement for independence from Mexico |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | invented the telegraph in the 1840s - allowed people to communicate over long distance |
| Santa Anna | Mexican General - he helped slaughter/kill Texans/Americans during the Mexican War |
| Stephen F. Austin | 1822 - founded an American colony in Texas - which was then part of Mexico |
| Thomas Edison | invented the telephone & responsible for electricity - changed American life - now work by light at night in your home - no more candles |
| Wild Bill Hickok | larger than life cowboy out of the Wild West |
| William Jennings Bryan | ran against William McKinley for President & lost - he had a slogan "Cross of Gold" - was for silver, reduce tariffs, anti-trust laws, but still lost the election |
