| A | B |
|---|
| people who searched for silver and gold | prospectors |
| towns that grew quickly around the mining industry | boom towns |
| towns that were deserted when the mines ran out | ghost towns |
| reasons that mining companies replaced individuals | steam shovels, drills and other expensive euipment were required to dig deep |
| miners' union | Western Federation of Miners |
| what the union wanted | better pay and safer working conditions |
| word that means watching over something | vigilance |
| committees that wwould watch over towns and keep law and order | Vigilance Committees |
| Plains' Indians most valuable resource | buffalo |
| killed buffalo to feed railroad workers | Buffalo Bill Cody |
| Souix chief that fought miners that traveled through Indian lands | Red Cloud |
| an area of land set aside by the government for Native Americans | reservation |
| was killed by the Souix at the Little Bighorn River | Custer and the entire 7th calvary |
| site of an Indian massacre | Wounded Knee, South Dakota |
| leader of the Nez Perce | Chief Joseph |
| tribe that tried to escape to Canada | Nez Perce |
| led the Souix in the Battle of Little Bighorn | Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse |
| Apache chief | Geronimo |
| the US government wanted the Indians to become this | farmers |
| where gold was found in 1859 | Pike's Peak |
