| A | B |
|---|
| Homestead Act | encouraged people to live on the great plains, 160 acres of land, stay 5 years |
| sod houses | used on great plains since there were few trees, hard to keep clean |
| Joseph Glidden | invented barbed wire |
| reason some farmers left their farms on the Great Plains | low crop prices |
| long drives | when cowhands drove cattle to railroad towns |
| hardships faced by cowboys | working in bad weather, making little money, being away from families |
| range wars | barbed wire caused trouble between farmers and ranchers |
| mining boom | quick economic growth due to mining success |
| mining bust | bad economic periods, left many mining towns empty - ghost towns |
| vigilance committees | maintained law & order in mining towns |
| buffalo | most important resource of the plains Indians |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | where Custer made his "last stand" |
| Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse | led Sioux at Little Bighorn |
| Black Hills | sacred land to the Sioux - gold was discovered there |
| reservation | area of land set aside by the gov't as a home for Native Americans |
| Chief Joseph | Chief of Nez Perces, led them as they tried to escape to Canada |
| reasons Chief Joseph surrendered | tired of fighting; leaders and others had died; cold, no blankets |
| place where Apaches lived | New Mexico & Arizona |
| Geronimo | Apache Chief; last to surrender |
| bonanza farms | large farms on the Great Plains, run like factories |
| ways bonanza farms were like factories | had managers,workers had specialized jobs,everything was done by machines |
