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| 303867705 | Sand Creek, Colorado (1864) | -Militia massacre 400 Indians because they thought they were promised immunity. | 0 | |
| 303867706 | Feterman Massacre (1866) | -Sioux war party attempts to block construction -ambushed 81 soldiers and civilians | 1 | |
| 303867707 | Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) | -Government abandoned Bozeman Trail. -Great Sioux reservation was granted to Indians | 2 | |
| 303867708 | Sitting Bull | -leader of Siouxs -known for Battle of Little Big Horn -killed by Indian Agency police. | 3 | |
| 303867709 | Nez Percé Indians (1877) | -hearded onto a reservation by US authorities when Chief Joseph refused to give up land | 4 | |
| 304871798 | Chief Joseph | -Nez Percé chief -opposed white expansion westward and relocation to reservations -captured by U.S. forces in 1877 | 5 | |
| 304450812 | Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) | -Custer's last stand -victory for the Lakota | 6 | |
| 304450813 | Wounded Knee 1890 | -Lakota are escorted to Wounded Knee -White settlers saw Ghost Dance as a threat -shot was fired and all troops open fire killing 300 | 7 | |
| 303867710 | Capture of Indians: | 1.) Railroads- bring in troops faster 2.) Diseases 3.) Firewater(what NAs call Whiskey) | 8 | |
| 303867711 | George A. Custer | -Battle of Washita -Battle of Little Big Horn | 9 | |
| 303867712 | Bison | -Bison numbers decrease. Hunted down -William "Buffalo Bill" Cody killed 4,000 animals. | 10 | |
| 303867713 | Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 | -outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship -goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible | 11 | |
| 303867714 | Carlisle Indian School 1879 | -Indians are taught english | 12 | |
| 303867715 | Boomtowns | -towns created as a result of mining | 13 | |
| 303867716 | Mining Frontier | -attracted population and wealth -opportunities -metals created ($) -American folklore and literature | 14 | |
| 303867717 | Sooners | -illegally crossed the line prior to the opening gun at high noon on April 22, 1889 in order to stake claims to the best land. | 15 | |
| 303867718 | Bonanza Farms | ... | 16 | |
| 303867719 | Homestead Act of 1862 | -Settlers could acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $300 | 17 | |
| 303867720 | John Westley Powell | -explorer of Grand Canyon -warned that the west needed irrigation | 18 | |
| 303867721 | The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry 1867 | -lead by Olliver H. Kelley -Kelley's objective: enhance lives through social, educational, and fraternal activities -Grangers' goals: improvement of the farmers' collective plight | 19 | |
| 303867722 | Greenback Labor Party | -combined the appeal of Greenbacks with a program improving labor. | 20 | |
| 303867723 | Farmer's Alliance | -formed to break the strong grip of the railroads and manufacturers through cooperative buying and selling. | 21 | |
| 303867724 | Populist Party 1890 | -emerges from Farmer's Alliance -called for nationalizing the railroads, telephones, and telegraph; instituting a graduated income tax; creating a new federal sub-treasury (provide farmers with loans); and the free and unlimited coinage of silver. | 22 | |
| 303867725 | Panic of 1893 | -strengthened the Populists' argument that farmers and laborers were being victimized by an oppressive economic and political system. | 23 | |
| 304871799 | Frederick Jackson Turner | -Historian whose 1893 essay The Significance of the Frontier in American History argued that western settlement had had an extraordinary impact on U.S. social, political, and economic development | 24 | |
| 303867726 | General Jacob S. Coxey | -wealthy quarry owner -demanded that the government relieve unemployment by an inflationary public works program. -In 1894, set out with 500 men for Washington, D.C., to petition the federal government for cheap money and debt-relief programs. When "Coxey's Army" reached the Capitol building, however, the men were arrested for trespassing on the lawn. | 25 | |
| 303867727 | Pullman Strike 1894 | -Eugene V. Debs organizes a union. -Workers strike and paralyze railway traffic from Chicago to Pacific Coast. -AFL declines support -Army sent in because no mail was going through. -First time a legal weapon had been used on a strike | 26 | |
| 303867728 | Election of 1896 | -William McKinley (Republican), William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) -Bryan's defeat marks the last effort to win the White House with agrarian votes - Republican victory also heralded a grip on the White House for 16 years. | 27 | |
| 303867729 | Marcus Alonzo Hanna | -organized McKinley's campaigns | 28 | |
| 303867730 | Democratic Convention 1896 | -held in Ohio -Democrats needed a new leader since Cleveland was unpopular(Bryan) | 29 | |
| 303867731 | 16 to 1 | -Populists nominated former Greenback Party member James B. Weaver for president and campaigned on a platform of unlimited, cheap silver money pegged at a rate of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. | 30 | |
| 303867732 | Dingley Tariff Bill 1897 | -raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates | 31 | |
| 303867733 | Gold Standard Act of 1900 | -paper currency redeemed freely in gold. -killed Populist Party | 32 |
