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| 12344323525 | Sitting Bull | a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies and was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him | 0 | |
| 12344323526 | Chief Joseph | a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce who led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada when faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon | 1 | |
| 12344323527 | George A. Custer | a U.S. cavalry officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War, is better known for leading more than 200 of his men to their deaths in the notorious Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 | 2 | |
| 12344323528 | Sioux Wars | a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 between the Lakota, Sioux, and Northern Cheyenne and the government of the United States | 3 | |
| 12344323529 | Apache | a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache | 4 | |
| 12344323530 | Ghost Dance | a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems as the last effort of Native Americans to resist US domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands | 5 | |
| 12344323531 | Battle of Wounded Knee | an 1890 massacre left some 15 0Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government | 6 | |
| 12344323532 | Geronimo | a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe who led his people's defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States | 7 | |
| 12344323533 | Dawes Severalty Act | an act adopted by Congress in 1887 that authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians | 8 | |
| 12344323534 | Reservation System | a system that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and most land was used communally, rather than owned individually | 9 | |
| 12344323535 | Battle of Little Big Horn | an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States | 10 | |
| 12344323536 | Helen Hunt Jackson | an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government | 11 | |
| 12344323537 | Frederick Jackson Turner | an American historian that laid the foundation for modern historical study of the American West and presented a "frontier thesis" that continues to influence historical thinking even today | 12 | |
| 12344323538 | Marcus A. Hanna | an American businessman and Republican politician, who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee | 13 | |
| 12344323539 | William McKinley | the 25th President of the United States that led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War and raised protective tariffs to promote American industry until his assassination in September 1901 | 14 | |
| 12344323540 | Oliver H. Kelley | one of the key founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization in the United States and became a powerful political force among western farmers | 15 | |
| 12344323541 | Jacob S. Coxey | an American politician that received national recognition when he led an "Industrial Army" of unemployed workers to Washington, D. C. to protest the federal government's response to the economic depression of the 1890s | 16 | |
| 12344323542 | Patrons of Husbandry | a fraternal organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture | 17 | |
| 12344323543 | Granger Laws | a series of laws passed in several midwestern states of the United States to regulate grain elevator and railroad freight rates and rebates and to address discrimination and other railroad abuses against farmers | 18 | |
| 12344323544 | Farmer's Alliance | an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875 when black farmers faced the same economic problems as the whites and were excluded on the basis of race from membership in the Southern Farmers' Alliance | 19 | |
| 12344323545 | Populists | a new American political party who supported increasing the power of the working class and the farmers against the interests of the wealthy, who were more politically powerful | 20 | |
| 12344323546 | Comstock Lode | a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson and was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States named after American miner Henry Comstock | 21 | |
| 12344323547 | Long Drive | journeys in the plains states by ranchers who needed a way to easily transport their cattle to eastern cities | 22 | |
| 12344323548 | mechanization of agriculture | the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity | 23 | |
| 12344323549 | mining industry | composed of two sectors, one specializes in exploration for new resources; other specializes in mining those resources | 24 | |
| 12344323550 | Gold Standard Act | an act passed in 1990 that established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism | 25 |
