| A | B |
|---|
| National Grange | Demanded that the government help with falling farm prices and high railroad prices |
| Chivington Massacre | U.S.troops attacked a peaceful Cheyenne village and killed more than 100 people |
| Homestead Act | Promised 160 acres of land on the Great Plains to anyone who would farm the land for 5 years |
| Comstock Lode | One of the largest gold and silver deposits |
| jerky | dried and preserved meat |
| cooperative | farmers pool their money together to buy seeds and other supplies at wholesale prices |
| Fort Laramie Treaty | agreement signed in 1851 in which Native Americans agreed to stay within a limited area which would be theirs forever |
| Exodusters | African-Americans who left the South to become farmers on the Great Plains |
| Little Big Horn | battle in which Crazy Horse defeated Colonel George Custer and his troops |
| vaqueros | American cowboys learned to herd cattle and use the lariat from these Mexican cowboys |
