| A | B |
|---|
| Frontier | the sparsely settled area in the west |
| Great Plains | Area from Missouri River to Rocky Mountains |
| Boomtown | town that experiences economic boom |
| long drive | cattle drive to cow towns |
| vaquero | one of the early cowhands who came to the Southwest from Mexico |
| vigilante | a citizen who took the law into their own hands |
| reservation | land set aside for Native American Tribes |
| Sand Creek Massacre | A deadly attack on a peaceful Cheyenne Village by Colorado Militia |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux Chief |
| George A. Custer | U.S. cavalry commander |
| Battle of the Little Big Horn | famous battle between U.S. troops and Native Americans (Custer's defeat) |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | Mass Killing of Native Americans by U.S. troops |
| Dawes Act | plan that gave Native Americans land to farm |
| Homestead | A piece of land and the house on it |
| Mexicano | Spanis speaking southwesterner |
| William "Buffalo Bill" Cody | Buffalo hunter who promoted life in the West |
| Buffalo Soldier | Name give to an African American serving in the U.S. army in the West |
| Homestead Act | Law that offered land to anyone who agreed to settle on it for 5 years |
| Exoduster | an African American who migrated to the west |
| Sodbuster | a farmer on the Great Plains |
| Grange | a group that helped farmers |
| Cooperative | farm organization owned and run by its members |
| Populist Party | National political party formed by farm groups |
| Gold Standard | system in which goverment backed every dollar with a certain amount of gold |
| William Jennings Bryan | presidential candidate supported by Populists and Democrats |
