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
Cheif Joseph
Cheif of the nez perce who tried to lead his people to canada
Homestead act
Offered 160 acres of land for 10 dollars
Rise in prices
Inflation
Vigilante
One who takes law into their own hands
Spanning from coast to coast
Transcontinental
Geronimo and the apaches
Attacked settlers in Arizona and New Mexico
A golden spike was driven in this Utah city when the railroads were connected
Promontory
Blacks who headed west to what they hoped would be would be promise land
Exodusters
Reservation
Land set aside for native Americans go live on
Too much grain led ______ to prices!hurting farmers income
Lower
Cooperatives
Pooled framers resources together to buy cheaper supplies
Cities that developed at the end of cattle trails
Cow towns
Helped organize framers socially and politically
Grange
Coned shaped tent made of buffalo skin
Teepee
Sooners
Moved into Oklahoma before they were supposed to
Towns that sprung uo in mining areas
Boomtowns
