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| 8819369650 | Sitting Bull | Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn | 0 | |
| 8819374501 | Frederick Jackson Turner | United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history in his essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas formed the Frontier Thesis. He argued that the moving western frontier shaped American democracy and the American character from the colonial era until 1890. | 1 | |
| 8819374502 | Sioux | attacked and killed Captain William J. Fetterman's command of 81 soldiers and civilians in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was a rare Indian victory in the plains wars. | 2 | |
| 8819374503 | George A Custer | Colonel George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry was slaughtered as they tried to suppress the Indians after the Sioux attacked settlers who were searching for gold in the "Great Sioux reservation." | 3 | |
| 8819378509 | Geronimo | Leader of the Apaches of Arizona in their warfare with the whites | 4 | |
| 8819378510 | Helen Hunt Jackson | published A Century of Dishonor in 1881 which told of the record of government ruthlessness in dealing with the Indians. She also wrote Ramona in 1884 which told of injustice to the California Indians. | 5 | |
| 8819382718 | Nez Perce | Native American Tribe that will flee capture from U.S. Troops, who almost make it to Canada. | 6 | |
| 8819382719 | Comstock Lode | "Fifty niners" also rushed to Nevada in 1859 after gold and silver were discovered at ___ | 7 | |
| 8819387128 | Long Drive | name for the moving of cattle across the plains to the railroad terminals | 8 | |
| 8819390681 | Mary E. Lease | Eloquent Kansas Populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell" | 9 | |
| 8819390825 | Gold Bugs | referred to those who favored basing the US monetary system on gold to the exclusion of silver | 10 | |
| 8819395144 | William Jennings Bryan | 1896 election Democratic candidate. He supported inflation through the unlimited coinage of silver, which caused many Populists to support him as a candidate. | 11 | |
| 8819413690 | Eugene V. Debs | helped to organize the American Railway Union. Railway union leader who converted to socialism while serving jail time during the Pullman strike | 12 | |
| 8819501750 | The Grange (National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry) | mprove the farmers' collective troubles. They established cooperatively owned stores for consumers and cooperatively owned grain elevators and warehouses for producers. | 13 | |
| 8819504547 | Oliver H. Kelley | formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry | 14 | |
| 8819518039 | Greenback Labor Party | sought to improve the working conditions of laborers. | 15 | |
| 8819526242 | Populist Party | grew out of the Farmers' Alliance. It called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; instituting a graduated income tax; and creating a new federal subtreasury, in which harvested crops were stored until crop prices rose. ____ also wanted free and unlimited coinage of silver. | 16 | |
| 8819541911 | Coxey's Army | "General" Jacob S. Coxey led a protest in Washington in 1894, demanding that the government start a public works program. After the panic of 1893 | 17 | |
| 8819587941 | William McKinley | Republican candidate for the election of 1896. the prime function of government was to aid business, and he believed in the "trickle down effect" (laborers do well if the business does well). The Republican platform supported the gold standard. Won the election | 18 |
