THE MEN WHO WON TEXAS, THE OREGON COUNTRY, AND CALIFORNIA Sam Houston, Hero of San Jacinto 277 David Crockett, Great Hunter and Hero of the Alamo 282 John C. Fremont, the Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains 283 Spanish Missions in the Southwest 290 THE THREE GREATEST STATESMEN OF THE MIDDLE PERIOD Henry Clay, the Founder of the Whig Party and the Great Pacificator 294 Daniel Webster, the Defender of the Constitution 300 John C. Calhoun, the Champion of Nullification 306 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE LIBERATOR AND MARTYR A Poor Boy Becomes a Great Man 313 Andrew Johnson and the Progress of Reconstruction 328 TWO FAMOUS GENERALS Ulysses S. Grant, the Great General of the Union Armies 331 Robert Edward Lee, the Man Who Led the Confederate Armies 337 MEN WHO HELPED DETERMINE NEW POLITICAL POLICIES Rutherford B. Hayes 342 James A. Garfield 345 Chester A. Arthur 346 Grover Cleveland 347 Benjamin Harrison 349 THE BEGINNING OF EXPANSION ABROAD William McKinley and the Spanish-American War 352 THE MAN WHO WAS THE CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY Theodore Roosevelt, the Typical American 360 William Howard Taft 369 WESTWARD EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT The Westward Movement of Population and the Development of Transportation 372 George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal 376 MEN OF RECENT TIMES WHO MADE GREAT INVENTIONS Thomas A. Edison, the Greatest Inventor of Electrical Machinery in the World 380 Two Inventions Widely Used in Business 386 Automobile Making in the United States 388 Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Men Who Gave Humanity Wings 390 John P. Holland, Who Taught Men to Sail Under the Sea 395 HEROINES OF NATIONAL PROGRESS Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Who Were the first to Struggle for the Rights of Women 400