Consolidation: forging the nation KEY PEOPLE

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Andrew Johnson
President of USA 1865-1869. (Followed by Ulysses S. Grant til 1877)
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Buffalo Hunters
Employed to shoot buffalo for their hides/exterminate the Indians.
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George Armstrong Custer
Led the 7th Cavalry. Reported gold in Black Hills 1874. Killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn. Glory hunter.
3 of 7
Sitting Bull/Crazy Horse
Indian Chiefs - won Battle of the LB. Sitting Bull killed during arrest in 1890.
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Reno + Benteen
ignored Custer's orders to support him at the Battle of the LB.
5 of 7
Wovoka
Medicine Man - vision of ghost dance
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Home-steaders
Settlers/farmers encouraged by US government acts and land grants in the 1860s to farm on the Great Plains.
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Card 2

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Employed to shoot buffalo for their hides/exterminate the Indians.

Back

Buffalo Hunters

Card 3

Front

Led the 7th Cavalry. Reported gold in Black Hills 1874. Killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn. Glory hunter.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Indian Chiefs - won Battle of the LB. Sitting Bull killed during arrest in 1890.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

ignored Custer's orders to support him at the Battle of the LB.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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