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| Pikes Peak | Gold was discovered here in 1858. |
| Comstock Lode | Largest discovery of Silver. |
| Boomtowns | Grew up overnight in mining areas. |
| Ghost Town | A deserted boomtown. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Stretches across a continent from one coast to the other. |
| Union Pacific Railroad | Began in Omaha, Nebraska and went westward. |
| Central Pacific Railroad | Began in Sacramento, California and went eastward. |
| Promontory Point, Utah | Site where the Union and Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. |
| Vaqueros | Cowboys |
| Lariats | Ropes used by Cowboys. |
| The Homestead Act of 1862 | Offered 160 acres of free land to settlers who lived on the land for five years. |
| The Great Exodus | Over 40,000 African Amercians left the South and moved West. |
| Buffalo | Used by Native Americans for food, clothing, and shelter. |
| Reservations | Land set aside by the government for Native American Indians. |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated General George Custer and his men. |
| The Dawes Act of 1887 | Forced Native Americans to become farmers and ended their way of life. |
| Battle at Wounded Knee | Massacre of over 300 Native Americans and marked the end of fighting between Native Americans and the government. |
| The Grange | First organization of farmers that set up co-ops. |
| The Farmers' Alliance | Set up cooperative buying for farmers and reduced the power of the railroads. |
| The Populist Party | Wanted the government to run the railroads, and wanted to replace the county's gold based currency to silver. |
| William Jennings Bryan | Ran for President as the Populist candidate. |
| Corral | an enclosure at the bottom of a steep hill. |
| Jerky | dried up Buffalo meat. |
| Sun Dance | Religious Dance performed at summer councils. Dancers asked the Great Spirit for food and fortune. |
| Fort Laramie Treaty | Promised money, domestic animals, and agricultural tools to Native Americans as long as they stayed in a limited area. |
| Chivington Massacre | Soldiers killed over 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children after they surrendered. |
| Peace Commission | Urged Native Americans to settle down and live as white white farmers did. Also wanted children to attend white schools and learn American ways. |
| Chief Joseph | Leader of the Nez Perces, who refused to leave his land. |
| Ghost Dance | Native Americans belived that by performing this dance that all whites would disappear, and the buffalo would be return. |
