| A | B |
|---|
| vaquero | Mexican cowboy |
| vigilante | someone who takes the law into his/her own hands |
| long drive | springtime drive by cowboys to bring cattle to railroads |
| Buffalo soldiers | African American soldiers of the Plains |
| jerky | dried buffalo meat |
| Dawes Act | act of Congress intended to get Native Americans to assismilate |
| Homestead Act | 1862 Act of Congress that led to the settlement of the Great Plains |
| Populist Party | factory workers and farmers who formed a third party to address the needs of the common man |
| William Jennings Bryan | 1896 Presidential candidate who won the Populist Party support |
| free silver | adding silver coins into circulation to cause farm prices to rise |
| Comstock Lode | rich silver mine founded in Sierra Nevadas |
| travois | sled used by Plains Indians to pull their goods |
| nomadic | moving from place to place |
| Grange | farmer organization organized cooperatives |
| William McKinley | won the 1896 election with support of Bankers and Business owners |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Native American reformer who wrote A Century of Dishonor |
| Nat Love | African American former slave who became a famous cowboy |
| exodusters | African Americans who exited the South for the Great Plains after the Civil War |
| Belle Starr | famous American woman outlaw |
| Jesse and Frank James | famous American outlaws |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux Chief who helped organize the Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Sun Dance | performed to ask the Great Spirit for a good buffalo hunting season |
| Ghost Dance | performed to bring back dead ancestors and take back the Plains |
| Chief Joseph | led Nez Perce against reservation life |
| Sand Creek Massacre | 150 peaceful Cheyenne killed by John Chivington |
| Fetterman Massacre | Sioux killed U.S. army who trespassed on the Bozeman Trail |
| Wounded Knee Creek Massacre | surrendering Sioux were killed marking the end of the Indian Wars |
| Joe McCoy | developed plan to utilize the railroad to ship cattle |
| Jesse Chisholm | early cowboy who blazed a trail to other cowboys to follow |
| pemmican | dried buffalo meat mixed with berries and stuffed into thin skins |
| tepee | nomadic Indian home, made from buffalo hides |
| cooperative | group of farmers who pool their money to buy seeds and tools |
| George Custer | leader of 7th calvary- killed at Battle of Little Bighorn |
