| A | B |
|---|
| sodbuster | farmers who plowed the Great Plains |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Transcontinental Railroad | brought people to the west |
| public land | land owned by the national government |
| James Oliver | invented steel plow |
| Henry Bessemer | invented a way to produce steel cheaper |
| William Cody | AKA Buffalo Bill |
| General George Armstrong Custer | He and his men killed by Sioux in Battle of Little Big Horn |
| Chief Joseph | almost made it to Canada but was captured and forced onto a reservation |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | the last major encounter between Native Americans and the U.S. Army |
| Homestead Act | 160 acres to anyone who would farm it for 5 years |
| Dawes Act | law that gave plots of land to individual Native American families to farm |
| Dry Farming | planting drought resistant crops and adding mulch to maintain moisture |
| Sooners | people who cheated in a land grab contest |
| Jim Crow | laws that created unequal opportunities in housing |
| Booker T. Washington | equality through vocational education accepted segregation |
| 13th amendment | banned slavery |
| 14th amendment | grants citizenship of all people born in US |
| 15th amendment | right to vote regardless of race or color |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | provided food and education for poor in south |
| Carpetbagger | a northern who moved to the south to try to take advantage of southerners |
| Black Codes | laws in the south that limited freedom of African Americans |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | preservation of the Union is more important that punishing south |
| ROBERT E. LEE | encouraged southerners to reconcile with the north |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS | powerful voice for rights and liberties for ALL people. |
