| A | B |
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| Sitting Bull | Leader of Sioux; killed Custer. |
| George A. custer | Led a Calvary to suppress the Indians and to return them to the reservation, but lost the battle. |
| Chief Joseph | Surrendered his renegade band of some seven hundred Indians after 1,700 mile trek across Continental Divide toward Canada. |
| Geranium | Apache leader; hated whites; was pursued w/ other Apaches to Mexico by federal troops. |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Writer of children's literature; wrote "A Century of Dishonor," a book that chronicled the sorry record of government ruthlessness and chicanery in dealing with the Indians; also wrote "Romana," a love story of injustive to California Indians which sold 600,000 copies and furthered inspired Indians. |
| Joseph A. Gladden | Invented barbed wire to build fences on treeless prairies. |
| Oliver H. Kelley | Shrewd and energetic Minnesota farmer; tried to stimulate minds of the farm folk by social, educational, and fraternal activities. |
| James B. Weaver | Ran for President under Greenback Labor Pary; favorite of Civil War veterans; only polled three percent of total popular vote. |
| Mary Elizabeth Lease | Queen of "calamity howlers;" made speeches upbraiding moneyed aristocracy and denouncing the government's actions favoring big business. |
| Sioux Wars | Wars between the Sioux Indians and the federal government over Indian Territory. |
| Nes Perce | Gold found on reservation, making them lose 90% of their land. |
| Apache | Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico led by Geranium. |
| Ghost dance | Sioux dance that US governmnet feared because it was bringing new hope to Sioux. |
| Battle of Wounded Knee | Sioux Indians massacred because of accidental gun shot. |
| Dawes Severalty Act | Dissolved many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of land, and set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free acres. |
| Comstoc Lode | Amount of gold and silver worth more than $340 million dollars. |
| Long Drive | Texas cowboys drove herds of cattle to railroad terminal to sell cattle. |
| Homestead Act | Law provided that a settler could acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it five years and paying a nominal fee averaging about thirty dollars. |
| Eighty-Niners | People racing to get free land in Oklahoma in 1889. |
| Patrons of Husbandry | Another name for The Grange, an agrarian political interest group. |
| Granger Laws | State legislation passed by granger politicians which attempted to regulate railway rates and charges for storage of grain in elevators. Many of these laws were badly written or overturned by the Wabash case decided by the Supreme Court. |
| Greenback Labor Party | Combined the inflationary appeal of the earlier Greenbacks with a program of improving the lot of labor; many farmers joined. |
| Farmer's Alliance | Like Grangers; bestirred in politics, organized cooperatives of various kinds, and sought to break the strangling grip of the railroads and manufacturers. |
| Populists | People's party; attracted countless recruits of Farmers' Alliances; led by Mary E. Lease and others. |
