| A | B |
|---|
| government grants | subsidies |
| connected the Atlantic/Pacific | transcontinental railroad |
| Plains farmers | sodbusters |
| created by railroad companies | time zones |
| demand of Populist party | free silver |
| farmers selfhelp organizations | the Grange |
| burned into the hide of cattle | brand |
| followed the buffalo | nomadic hunters |
| Dawes Act | Indians become farmers |
| ghost dance | restore Sioux to greatness |
| killed at the Little Bighorn | George Armstrong Custer |
| marked end ofcattle kingdom | falling beef prices |
| danger on cattle drive | stampede |
| exodusters | migrated from the South |
| used own brand of justice | vigilantes |
| rich lode of silver bearing ore | Comstock Lode |
| no gold, boomtowns turned | into ghost towns |
| transcontinental rr met here | Promontory Point, Utah |
| technologies used on Plains | windmill, barbed wire, steel plow |
| 3 adaptations of settlers | sodhouses, dry farming, cattle |
| characteristics of Great Plains | treeless, little rain, tough soil |
| Cattle Kingdom ended | overgrazing,cattle glut, harsh winters |
| government sent Indians to | reservations |
| last conflict w/Indians | massacre at Wounded Knee |
