Chapter 17 Flashcards
Crazy horse and sitting bull lead the _______ or Lakota at Little Bighorn
Sioux
Laborers from ______ and Ireland played a key role in building the railroads out west
China
Bryan
Populist candidate for the Democratic Party in 1896
Dawes act
tried to convert native Americans into farmer
Sioux spiritual dance that the US army thought was a prelude to war
Ghost dance
Settlers used buffalo ____ for heating and fertilizer
Manure
The political party of the people
Populists
Farmers believed that higher prices would allow them to pay off there _____ more easily
Dept
Buffalo Bill Cody
Created the cowboy mith with his Wild West show
Sodbusters
Farmers who broke ground on the plains
Untended land in Texas where cattle roamed
Open range
Little big horn
Where Custer and the seventh cavalry were defeated
200 Sioux including women and children were killed at
Wounded née
Subsidies
Grants of money or land give. By the government to encourage growth
Silver lode discovered in Nevada in 1859
Com stock