| A | B |
|---|
| Dawes Act | took away tribal ownership of the land & gave Native Americans individual ownership of land |
| Dependent farmers | farmers who depend on bankers, middlemen, RR, grain storage, world markets |
| Fredrick Jackson Turner | wrote a book in 1893, The Significance of Frontier in American |
| General George Custer | He and his 264 troops were killed by the Sioux |
| Grange | educational & social organization for farmers; brought farmers together |
| Granger laws | regulated RR freight laws |
| Great Plains | prairie land that stretched Illinois to Iowa, from Canada to Texas |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885) |
| Homestead Act | got people to start farms on the Great plains; lived there for 5 yrs you got 160 acres for free |
| Indian Removal Act 1803 | Native Americans had to move west of the Mississippi River |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | regulated RR rates nationwide |
| Lokota (Sioux) | Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains |
| Munn vs. Illinois | gov’t could regulate business, ICC |
| Northwest Ordinances 1787 | promised to deal with native Americans in good faith & won’t take land without your permission |
| Oliver Kelly | began the Grange |
| Pike’s Peak | gold was discovered here |
| Proclamation Line of 1763 | settlers west of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Self- sufficient farmers | farmers who grow just enough for their own needs |
| Trail of Tears 1838 | Cherokees forced to leave Georgia to go to Oklahoma Territory – 15,000 left GA & ¼ of them died along the way |
| Wounded Knee Creek | massacre of Lakota Indians by U.S. army |
