| A | B |
|---|
| Battle of Little Big Horn | Custer and more than 200 soldiers are killed by the Sioux |
| Bonanza Farms | controlled and managed by large businesses |
| Dawes Act | Gave land to Native Americans ; often land not suitable for farming |
| John Deere | invented steel plow |
| Joseph Glidden | invented barbed wire |
| Homestead Act | 160 acres free if you lived and worked there 5 years |
| long drive | moving the cattle from the range to the railroad |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | 200 unarmed Sioux killed by 7th cavalry |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | land given to colleges, ROTC,and agricultural extension service |
| placer mining | panning for gold and other minerals |
| reservations | land set aside for Native Americans |
| sooners | Oklahoma settlers who sneaked out and claimed their land early |
| Chisholm Trail | from San Antonio to Abilene |
| Chivington Massacre | Cheyenne (including women and children)are killed by U.S. army |
| negative impact of bonanza farms | oversupply causing drop in prices |
| Custer | Leader of the Seventh Cavalry |
| Harrison's Hoss Race | Oklahoma land rush |
| tatanka | buffalo (Sioux) |
| the West as a safety valve | allowed the adventurous to leave the crowds in the East and head to the frontier |
| Oklahoma | last territory opened for settlers |
| buffalo chips | used for fuel on the treeless prairie |
| drag rider | the youngest on the trail |
| Ghost Dance | Sioux ritual celebrating the end of the whites and the return of the buffalo |
| quartz mining | mining that dug deep beneath the surface |
| Wheat belt | productive farm area from the Mississippi to the Rockies |
| dry farming | planting seeds deep in the ground where there is enough moisture |
| Cyrus McCormick | improved the reaping machine |
| assimilate | to absorb one culture into another |
| Chief Joseph | leader of the NezPerce. "I will fight no more forever." |
| Prices do this if there is too much of a commodity | fall |
| primary source | a source that originates during the time period it describes |
| ore | mineral bearing material |
| panning | least efficient mining method |
| nomads | wanderers |
