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| The point in the state of Utah where construction on the Transcontinental Railroad was completed. | ||
| The act that allowed any adult citizen could claim 160 acres of government land in the western territory providing they payed a small registration fee. | ||
| The rush for land in the state of Oklahoma. | ||
| A park founded in order to protect the indigenous species of the Midwest from being destroyed by an increase in hunting and settling. | ||
| The inventor of barbed wire -- a wire that has spikes designed to cut and agonize an individual trying to break free of it. | ||
| The United States industrialist who designed and manufactured plows that were especially suitable for soil found in the prairies of the Midwest. | ||
| The United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester. | ||
| The act that allowed for the creation of Land-Grant colleges. | ||
| The inventor who designed a refrigerated train car that coul ship perishable goods without ruining theme due to its cold temperature. | ||
| A federal law passed in 1898 prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics. | ||
| Paper money. | ||
| A social organization between farmers that was developed into a political movement for the government ownership of railroads. | ||
| The man who organized the Grange. | ||
| A national alliance of farmers who wanted government controlled railroads. | ||
| The largest of several organizations that formed in the post-Reconstruction of the South to advance the interests of farmers and those who supported the rights of farmers. | ||
| The alliance that more than 1 million southern black farmers organized after sharing complaints with poor white farmers. | ||
| The process by which railroad companies would give money back to their most favored customers. | ||
| The act that established the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) which is responsible for monitoring the business operation of carriers that transport goods and people between states; it also was created to regulate railroad prices | ||
| The court case in which the Supreme court allowed the states to regulate business withing the state, including railroads. | ||
| The court case the limited the States' right to control interstate commerce, especially on railroads. | ||
| The party that believed in a national standard of silver and government owned railroads; it favored farmers. | ||
| The standard that was established stating the debt would be payed back in gold and that gold was the basis of currency for the federal government. | ||
| A monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is created by the given amounts of two or more metals. | ||
| See the first "Greenbacks". | ||
| The nickname given to individuals who believed coining silver in unlimited quantities would solve the nation's economic crisis. | ||
| The party platform by which the populist party lived off of. | ||
| The speech that presidential candidate William Bryan used to obtain Democratic Party nomination in the 1896 election, desiring silver to be the national standard. Due to its rhetoric, it is considered the greatest speech in American history. | ||
| The book that stated how the 1800s had been a dishonorable century because of the "crimes" afflicted on the Native Americans by the United States. | ||
| The document stating how the American Frontier, which was once a land of opportunity, was now closing and becoming developed. | ||
| Large bull-like animals that roam the Great Plains of America; they were a huge source of fur and meat for settlers and Native Americans, and excess hunting has made them an endangered species. | ||
| An area in the state of Colorado where an abundance of gold was found. | ||
| When the regiment of Colorado brutally attacked a village of the Cheyenne Indians that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members. | ||
| The General who ordered the attack on the Cheyenne village. | ||
| The colonel that led US soldiers to Sand Creek where the sand creek massacre took place. | ||
| The road the US army attempted to block the construction of but failed after the Sioux massacred and mutilated 81 of them. | ||
| The massacre that was carried out by Sioux Indians along the Boseman trail. | ||
| The treaty that gave Native Americans control of United States plans related to the controlling of the territory. | ||
| The wars that ended Native American territory and Texas and relocated them to other locations across the Midwest. | ||
| Wars that occurred from 1876 to 1877 in which the Cheyenne Indian Tribe fought against the United States over the control of Midwestern territory. The United States was victorious. | ||
| When General Custard had his army slaughtered by Native Americans after underestimating their strength. | ||
| The leader of the Oglala tribe who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government in court and through violence. | ||
| The American Indian chief that lead the Battle of Little Bighorn and won. | ||
| Causing the Native Americans to integrate into the normal society of America and drop key, defining parts of their culture. | ||
| The act that allowed the United States President to survey Native American territory into smaller allotments for sale or occupation. | ||
| When US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native Americans in 1890, ending the Indian Wars. | ||
| The statement made by Chief Joseph after the Battle of Wounded Knee, stating that he has seen enough bloodshed in his life and will no longer create it. | ||
| Large, tough-to-breed cattle that roamed the great plains. They were terrified of due to their huge size and strong horns. | ||
| Pants that were made out of skin and worn by Native Americans and Cowboys. | ||
| A form of rouch horse commonly ridden by cowboys in the 1870s and 1880s. | ||
| Stockyards developed in Chicago for processing of cattle meet. | ||
| A cattle trader who built large cattle pens, which he named stockyards, near railroad tracks in Abilene, Kansas to improve shipping time. | ||
| Towns that, due to the railroads developed to ship cows/meat from the Midwest, became engrossed in the cattle industry and the slaughtering of animals. | ||
| A trail from San Antonio to Kansas built for the driving/shipping of cattle. | ||
| An owned area of land that is not fenced or divided into lots. | ||
| The idea that a man involved in the cattle industry would work from the brink of dawn to dusk catching or processing cattle. | ||
| The railroad that stretched across the United States; it was completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah and linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, completely revolutionizing transportation in the west. | ||
| The railroad companies/the union that worked together to create the first transcontinental railroad. | ||
| The railroad which stretched from Sacramento, California to the Eastern USA. | ||
| Irish Immigrants that came over because of a farming famine; they worked as farmers, factory workers and other low-income jobs. | ||
| The immigrants from China that helped build the California Central Railroad and were employed by the Central Pacific Railroad Company. | ||
| The day the nation was finally connected by the transcontinental railroad, at Promontory Point, Utah. |
