| A | B |
|---|
| . Homestead Act | 1862, offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who would cultivate it for 5 years. |
| Sitting Bull | most famous fight Little Big Horn, 218. |
| George A. Custer | massacred at Little Big Horn, 219 |
| . assimilation | – bringing Native Americans into American culture. 219. |
| Native Americans | would give up beliefs, become white culture |
| Dawes Act | —“Americanize” Native Americans |
| by cultivatin in them the desire to own property and to farm; broke up reservations and distributed reservation land—160 acres for farming or 320 acres for grazing to each adult head of Native American family. | Americanize Native Americans |
| James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok | scout and spy during Civil war and marshal in Abilene, Kansas. |
| James Butler, "Wild Bill" Hickok | Violent man, shot and killed while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights |
| the “dead man’s hand.” | a pair of aces and a pair of eights |
| Martha Jane Cannary | Calamity Jane, 225, Wild West Show entertainer |
| Martha Jane Cannary | markswoman, dressed like a man |
| Morrill Land Grant Acts 233 | 1862 and 1890 gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges. |
| . Populism | movement of the people, demanded reforms to life the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and to give people a greater voice in their government, |
| People’s Party | bimetallism and free coinage of silver. |
| William McKinley | Republican Party firm commitment to the gold standard and nominated by them for president. |
| William Jennings Bryan | gave “Cross of Gold” speech – “you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” 239 |
| U of Illinois | Morrill Land Grant college |
