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| George Armstrong Custer | Colonel of US at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
| lode | large vein of precious metal |
| Chicago | slaughter house capital of the US |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | last of the Indian wars; where Sitting Bill and other Siouxs were killed |
| Great Plains | the grassland region of the United States |
| Homestead Act | Act that offered free land to western settlers |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Massacre of Cheyenne indians in Colorado by the US army |
| Sitting Bull | Leader of the Sioux, accused of worshiping the Ghost dance religion, killed by US army |
| Ghost Dance | Sioux ritual believed to chase away the whites |
| Dawes Act | divided indian reservation lands into plot of 160 acres for each indian household |
| Little Big Horn | also known as Custer's Last Stand |
| farmers | last group to travel west |
| 49er | miner who went to California in search of gold |
| Oklahoma | former Indian reserve became open to settlement; Sooner State |
| Morrill Act | gave land for agricultural colleges |
| Joseph Glidden | invented barbed wire |
| Chisholm | trail that went fro San Antonio to Abilene |
| transcontinental | spanning from coast to coast |
| John Chivington | army officer that lead the Sand Creek Massacre |
| soddy | prairie house made of turf |
| assimilation | a minority group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture |
| farming innovations | reaper, barbed wire, plow, & windmills all helped farmers to be more productive |
| stereotype | an exagerated or over amplified description of reality held by numbered of people |
| boomer | settlers who ran land race to claim land in 1887 opeing of Indian Territory |
| bonanza farms | farm controlled by large busienss managed by professionals and raising massive quatities of single cash crops |
| land speculation | person who buys up large areas land in hopes of selling later for a profit |
| pull factors | events and condintions that strongly attract people to come to a certain place |
| Pacific Railway Acts | laws passed giving large land grants to the Union Pacific and Central pacific |
| Exoduster | Af. Ams who migrated to the west after the Civil war |
| nomad | people who move their homes regularly ,usually due to available food |
| reservation | federal land set aside for Native Ams. |
| Chief Crazy Horse | sioux chief helped lead the fight at Little Big Horn |
| sooners | people who illegally claimed land by sneaking past governtment officials before the land races |
| Oklahoma | originally "Indian Territory" but was opened up to a land race in 1877 |
| push factors | events and conditions that force people to move else where |
| buffalo | Indian's chief source of food |
| Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs | US govt. agency that worked directly with the Indians |
| inflation | when the amount of money in circulation is increased, but the dollar buys less |
| deflation | when the amount of money in circulation is decreased, but the dollar buys more |
| farmers prrefered this economic condition | inflation |
| The Grange | organization of farmers |
| Oliver Kelley | farmers who started the Grange |
| Populist | third Party that was supported by farmers and laborers |
| Panic | financial crisis |
| Wizard of Oz | allegory to financial situation of the late 1800s |
| Cross of Gold | famous speech by William Jennings Bryan |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic and Populist candidate in the election of 1896 |
| William Mckinley | Repulbican nominee for president who won in 1896 |
| bimetalism | backed by both silver and gold |
| goldbugs | those who supported only gold-backed money |
| silverites | those who were in favor of bimetalism |
| railroads | industry that took advantage of the farmers during the late 1800s |
| Interstate Commerce Act | law that allowed the govt to regulate railroad rates |
| bankers preferred this economic condition | deflation |
| high interest rates | made it difficult for farmers to borrow money to buy land |
| The People's Party | The Populist Party |
| barbed wire | helped end cattle drives and allowed farmers to fence in their property |
| Sacramento | Where the Central Pacific began building their portion of the transcontinental RR |
| Omaha | where the Union Pacific began building their portion of the transcontinental RR |
| Promontory Pt | where the golden spike was driven in to complete the transcontinental rr |
| Chicago | the slaughterhouse capital of the US |
| Manifest destiny | the belief that the US had the God given right to extend from Atlantic to Pacific |
