| A | B |
|---|
| Fort Laramie Treaty | Agreement between Northern Indians and U.S. govt. allowing U.S. to cross Indian land and build forts |
| Reservations | Area of land set aside for Indians |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Col. John Chivington led an attack and killed over 200 Cheyenne Indians |
| Bozeman Trail | Route used to protect miners as they crossed Indian land |
| Treaty of Medicine Lodge | Agreement where southern Indian tribes agreed to move to reservations |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | U.S. attack on Sioux Indians which led to an Indian victory and Custers death |
| Long Walk | The U.S. troops led the Navajo Indians on a forced march through the desert |
| Ghost Dance | Religious movement in which the Indians believed they would be in paradise |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | An attack on the Sioux Indians in which U.S. soldiers killed over 150 Indians |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | Agreement where the Indian reservations were divided up among the Indian families |
| Comstock Lode | A large discovery of gold in Nevada |
| Bonanza | Any large deposit of precious ore |
| Boom Towns | Communities that grow suddenly when a mine opened |
| demand | The number of people who want a good or service |
| supply | The amount of the good or service available |
| Pony Express | System of mail that used horses to cross the western plains |
| Transcontinental RR | Train that crossed the entire U.S. from East to West |
| Pacific Railway Act | Agreement that gave land and loans to companies to entice them to build the RR |
| High Prices | Usually occurs because of low supply and high demend |
| cost | What someone is willing to give up in order to have a certain good or service (money, time, effort) |
| Price | The amount of money it takes to buy a good or service |
| Central Pacific | RR company that started building in Sacremento, CA and hired mostly Chinese laborers |
| Union Pacific | RR company that started building the RR in Omaha, NE and used mostly Irish immigrants |
