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| 5971804149 | Transcontinental Railroad | Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US. |  | 0 |
| 5971804150 | Union Pacific | Railroad that received a charter to begin in Omaha, Nebraska and build westward. |  | 1 |
| 5971804151 | Central Pacific | Railroad that received a charter to begin in Sacramento, California and build eastward. |  | 2 |
| 5971804154 | Cattle Drive | One romantic element of the American West. Cattlemen drove their herds overland to northern railroad terminals. |  | 3 |
| 5971804155 | Cowboys | Men now shrouded by myth but who were actually tough, hard-working ranch hands. |  | 4 |
| 5971804156 | "Open-Ranges" | So called because the plains were unfenced public lands. |  | 5 |
| 5971804157 | Homestead Act (1862) | This act provided 160 acres of land to any settler who would live on the land for five years and improve it by building and farming. |  | 6 |
| 5971804159 | Great Plains | The region between the Mississippi River Valley and the Rocky Mountains, stretching north to south from Canada to southern Texas. |  | 7 |
| 5971804160 | Dry Farming | The cultivation of crops by careful conservation of water. |  | 8 |
| 5971804161 | Soddies | Houses built on blocks of earth and sod. |  | 9 |
| 5971804162 | Barbed Wire | Two thousand strands of wire studded with metal barbs ar measured intervals. |  | 10 |
| 5971804163 | Plains Indians | Tribes such as the Cheyenne, the Comanche, and the Sioux. These tribes came closer to the popular conception of Indians than did the eastern tribes. They lived in tepees, hunted buffalo on swift Indian ponies, and fought American cavalry with bows and arrows. |  | 11 |
| 5971804164 | Reservations | Special tracts of land set aside for the Indians where they could theoretically live in peace. |  | 12 |
| 5971804166 | George Armstrong Custer | Rash, dashing, and self-centered army officer. |  | 13 |
| 5971804167 | Sitting Bull | More of a political leader of the Sioux forces. He provided moral inspiration to the Indians and led in all negotiations with the whites. |  | 14 |
| 5971804168 | Crazy Horse | Served more as the military commander of the Sioux warriors. Under his leadership, the Sioux warriors fought one of the most unified, best-organized Indian campaigns in history. |  | 15 |
| 5971804169 | Custer's Last Stand | Custer and all of his force lost their lives in the Battle of Little Bighorn, which is popularly known as this. |  | 16 |
| 5971804172 | Dawes Act | Allowed Indian lands to be parceled out to individual Indian families to use and develop as they liked. They put kids in boarding schools, and gave money to religious institutions. |  | 17 |
| 5971804173 | Maximilian I | This Austrian nobleman was set up as a puppet emperor in Mexico in 1864. |  | 18 |
| 5971804175 | Treaty of Washington (1861) | Settled matters between America and Britain by setting up international tribunals to deal with each question. |  | 19 |
| 5971804176 | Matthew Perry | The United States government commissioned this Commodore to take a small squadron of warships to Japan and to negotiate with Japan's rulers. |  | 20 |
| 5971804177 | Treaty of Kanagawa (1854) | A major victory for American foreign trade. It was also the first step in opening Japan to western influences and molding that island nation into a major economic and military power. |  | 21 |
| 5971804179 | Open Door Policy | Called for all nations trading in China to refrain from interfering with one another and to allow free trade in China. |  | 22 |
| 5971804180 | Boxer Rebellion | An antiforeign movement that broke out in China. |  | 23 |
| 5971804181 | Imperialism | The extension of power by one people or country over another people or country. |  | 24 |
| 5971804186 | "Yellow Journalism" | Sensationalized news reporting aimed more at attracting readers than at reporting the truth. |  | 25 |
| 5971804188 | USS Maine | This battleship had been sent to Havana Harbor in Cuba in January 1898 to protect American interests on the island. Its mysterious destruction helped spark a war between the United States and Spain. |  | 26 |
| 5971804189 | Spanish-American War | Congress demanded Spain withdraw from Cuba. Spain refused, resulting in this. |  | 27 |
| 5971804191 | Battle of Manila Bay | Destroyed Spanish sea power in the Pacific and left the Philippines in the hands of the United States. |  | 28 |
| 5971804192 | Battle of Santiago Bay | The American forces captured the island of Cuba. |  | 29 |
| 5971804193 | "Rough Riders" | A collection of cowboys and adventurers from the West, commanded by Colonel Leonard Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. |  | 30 |
| 5971804194 | Emilio Aguinaldo | A revolutionary who had aided the United States against the Spanish and led an insurrection to overthrow the Americans and establish Philippine independence. |  | 31 |
