| A | B |
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| Homestead Act | 160 free acres given to be farmed for five years |
| Dawes Act | made land ownwership private rather than shared, resrvation land had to be divided and granted US citizenship to Indians |
| Boomtown | towns growing as a result of miners settling around mines |
| Cow Town | grew as a result of cattle drives |
| Sod Houses | houses built out of hard dry soil |
| Comstock Lode | nickname given to the iscovery of gold and silver in western Nevada |
| Chief Joseph | leader of Nez Perce tribe who attemrted to lead his group to Canada to escape the army |
| Laramie Treaty | Signed to given Indians an area of land |
| Ghost Town | after miners left Boomtowns |
| Steel Plow | overcome the problem of hard dry soil |
| Exodusters | Sharecroppers moving west |
| Sodbuster | nickname given to farmers in the west for being able to break up tough grassy soil |
| Chisolm Trail | earliest and most popular cattle drive route |
| Cyrus Mc Cormick | designer, builder and seller of farm equipments like reapers |
| Transcontinental Railroad | form of transportation that connected the east and the west |
| Cattle Drive | journey taken by cowboys and herds to get to cattle markets where cattle towns met the railroad |
| Open Range | large areas of land that had been occupied by Indians and buffalo and now used by ranchers to graze their herds |
| Range Wars | competition over land use involving ranchers and farmers |
| Promontory, Utah | location where two railroads met and joined uniting the east and west |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | last major Plains Indian War 150 Sioux died mostly women and children |
| Battle of Little Big Horn | worst defeat for US army in the west also called "Custer's Last Stand" |
| Ghost Dance | 1800s religious movement predicting the arival of paradise for American Indians |
| Reservations | land set aside for American Indians |
| Barbed Wire | helped farmers keep cattle out of their crops |
| Windmills | pumped water for rangers and farmers personal use |
| Levi's | provided durable clothing for miners, cowboys and farmers |
| George Custer | he nd his men faced Sitting Bull and the Sioux at th Battle of Little Big Horn and he was killed |
| Great Plains | a land that stretches from 98th meridian to the Rocky Mountais and from Canada to Texas |
