| A | B |
|---|
| reservation | land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans |
| Sand Creek massacre | A deadly attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village by a Colorado militia |
| Sitting Bull | Sioux chief at the Battle of LIttle Bighorn |
| George A. Custer | U.S. calvary general who se troops were wiped out at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | Mass killing of Native Americans by U.S. troops |
| Dawes Act | A plan that gave Native Americans land to farm and ownership after 25 years |
| homestead | A piece of land and the house on it |
| Mexicano | Spanish speaking Southwestern |
| William "Buffalo Bil" Cody | Buggalo huntr who promoted life in the west |
| buffalo soldier | Name given to an African American serving in the U.S. Army in the west |
| frontier | unsettle area in the west |
| Great Plains | Area west of the Appalachian and East of the Rocky Mountains |
| boomtown | town that experinces sudden economic or population growth |
| long drive | cattle drive to cow towns |
| vaquero | one od the early couwhandds who came to the Southwest from Mexico |
| vigilante | a citizen who took the law into his or her own hands |
| barbed wire | fencing made from wire with small "barb" place at intervals used in the Great Plains because there were few tress |
| windmill | powered drills deep down to the aquifers below the surface for a source of water to irrigate crops |
| transcontinental | going across the continent |
