 | Term | Definition |
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frontier |
undeveloped area |
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comstock lode |
discovery of silver /gold in Nevada |
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boomtowns |
towns that grew when a mine opened |
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cattle kingdom |
great plains where ranchers raised cattle |
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cattle drive |
long journeys, cowboys herded cattle to the market |
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chisholm trail |
most poplar routes for cattle drives |
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pony express |
system of messengers on horse back |
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transcontinental railroad |
railroad that crossed continents for east to west |
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treaty of fort laramie |
1st major treaty between the u.s gov. and plains indians |
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reservations |
areas for native americans to live in |
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treaty of medicine lodge |
most plains indians agreed to live on reservations |
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buffalo soldiers |
troops who forced indians to move to reservations |
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custer |
his soldiers discovered gold in the black hills of the dakotas |
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sitting bull |
leader of the sioux. |
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battle of the little bighorn |
sioux forces surrounded and defeated custer/ troops |
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massacre at wounded knee |
u.s army killed 150 sioux. last major incident on the great plains |
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long walk |
navajo forced to walk across the desert to a reservation |
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geronimo |
a chiricahua apache |
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ghost dance |
a religous movement predicted the arrival of paradise for indians |
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dawes general allotment act |
tried to change tradition of indians. making land privat erather than shared |
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homestead act |
gave gov. owned land to farmers |
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morril act |
gave land to states |
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exodusters |
southern african americans that moved to kansas from the south |
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sodbusters |
plains farmers that cleaned up sod on the great plains |
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dry farming |
a method of farming w/o a lot of water. red wheat |
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national grange |
social and educational organization for farmers |
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deflation |
a decrease in money supply and lower priced |
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populist party |
called for gov. to own railroads, telephones, and telegraph systems. |
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