| A | B |
|---|
| reservations | tracts of land - set aside for indians |
| tepee | tent of american inidans - made from animal skins |
| sodbusters | plains farmers - using new methods and tools |
| sod houses | houses made of soil, roots and trees |
| subsidy | financial aid and land grants from government |
| leland stanford | governor of california - drove golden spike - connect two railroads |
| central pacific | built transcontinental railroad - used CHINESE workders - worked eastward from california |
| time zone | american railway association divided country into 4 zones - one hour later then the other |
| chivington massacre | colonel john chivington led colorado volunteers to attack the cheyenne - THEY LOST |
| election of 1896 | presidential election - democra cadidate - william bryan - POPULIST endorsed him. Opponents - William McKinley - Republican |
| ranchers | cowhands that herd cattle |
| cattle drive | herding pf cattle from one place to another |
| golden spike | signified completion of the railline |
| homestead act | this law gave up to 160 acres of land to settlers |
| populist party | alliance members formed it and supported views of farmers and common people |
| the farmer's alliance | network of organizations in west and south sponsored education and cooperative buying |
| exodusters | name given to the african americans who migrated from states along the river to kansas |
| wounded knee | december 1890 - army went to collect siox weapins - massacre of 200 native americans - end of indian wars |
| ghost town | when the ore was gone and people left a town |
| corral | a circular enclosure formed by wagons during an encampment |
| boomtown | towns developed around mining sites |
| fort laramie treaty | agreement between US and the indians - another name for the treaty SIOUX TREATY |
| transcontinental railroad | connect alantic and pacific coasts |
| vaqueros | developed the riding roping and branding skills used by cowhands |
| union pacific | built railroad - lay trakc westward - used Irish and African American |
| travlois | transport device formerly used by plains indians |
| comstock lode | richest deposits of silver - bearing ore near nevada carson river |
| sitting bull | important leader of the Lakora Sious |
| vigilante | there were no police or prisoners - so ordinary people known as vigilantes - acted to punish criminals |
| dawes act | law aimed to remove what whites regarded as weaknesses of Native American Life - lack of private property and nomadic tradition |
| ghost dance | ceremonty hoping for settlers to disperse and buffalo to return |
| battle of little big horn | Colonel Custer - and his US Army Troops are defeated in battle by NA - SIOX and CHEYENNE |
