| A | B |
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| Helen Hunt Jackson | wrote a Century of Dishonor |
| George Armstrong Custer | Colonel of US at the Battle of Little Big Horn |
| lode | large vein of precious metal |
| interior | cabinet department that dealt with the Native Americans |
| Chicago | slaughter house capital of the US |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | last of the Indian wars; where Sitting Bill and other Siouxs were killed |
| Great Plains | the grassland region of the United States |
| Homestead Act | Act that offered free land to western settlers |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Massacre of Cheyenne indians in Colorado by the US army |
| Sitting Bull | Leader of the Sioux, accused of worshiping the Ghost dance religion, killed by US army |
| Ghost Dance | Sioux ritual believed to chase away the whites |
| Dawes Act | divided indian reservation lands into plot of 160 acres for each indian household |
| Promontory Point, Utah | where the golden spike was driven in |
| Little Big Horn | also known as Custer's Last Stand |
| farmers | last group to travel west |
| 49er | miner who went to California in search of gold |
| Chief Joseph | said, "I will fight no more, forever" |
| Oklahoma | former Indian reserve became open to settlement; Sooner State |
| Morrill Act | gave land for agricultural colleges |
| Joseph Glidden | invented barbed wire |
| Chisholm | trail that went fro San Antonio to Abilene |
| transcontinental | spanning from coast to coast |
| Col. Chivington | army officer that lead the Sand Creek Massacre |
| soddy | prairie house made of turf |
| assimilation | a minority group's adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture |
| farming innovations | reaper, barbed wire, plow, & windmills all helped farmers to be more productive |
| Turner Thesis | theory of Frederick Jackson Turenre that claiemd the frontier had played a vital role in forming the American character |
| stereotype | an exagerated or over amplified description of reality held by numbered of people |
| boomer | settlers who ran land race to claim land in 1887 opeing of Indian Territory |
| bonanza farms | farm cotnrolled by large busienss managed by professionals and raising massive quatities of single cash crops |
| land speculation | person who buys up large areas land in hopes of selling later for a profit |
| pull factors | events and condintions that strongly attract people to come to a certain place |
| Pacific Railway Acts | laws passed giving large land grants to the Union Pacific and Central pacific |
| Exoduster | Af. Ams who migrated to the west after the Civil war |
| nomad | people who move their homes regularly ,usually due to available food |
| reservation | federal land set aside for Native Ams. |
| Chief Crazy Horse | sioux chief helped lead the fight at Little Big Horn |
| sooners | people who illegally claimed land by sneaking past governtment officials before the land races |
| Oklahoma | originally "Indian Territory" but was opened up to a land race in 1877 |
| push factors | events and conditions that force people to move else where |
| Alaska | Seward's Folly |
| Russia | country that the US purchased Alaska from |
