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| 634930349 | Dawes Severalty Act 1887 | movement to reform Indian policies, dissolved Indian tribes and gives Indian family heads 160 acres of land | |
| 634930350 | Indian Recognition Act of 1934 | partially reserved the individualistic approach and tried to restore the tribal basis of Indian life | |
| 634930351 | Carlisle Indian School | school in PA where Native American children were taught English and white values and customs | |
| 634930352 | Ghost Dance | a cult of native americans who believed they had immunity from the whites and were killed in the Battle of Wounded Knee | |
| 634930353 | Sooners | entered Oklahoma illegally before it officially became a state | |
| 634930354 | Boomers | waited on the state line when Oklahoma became a state | |
| 634930355 | Bad Medicine Wagons | Native American term for trains that brought white settlers w/ troops, cattlemen, farmers, etc. | |
| 634930356 | Eighty Niners | the people who waited on the boundary line of Oklahoma | |
| 634930357 | Homestead Act of 1862 | paid settlers to settle up to 160 acres in the west and improve it for 5 years, gov't would pay them $30 | |
| 634930358 | Safty-Valve Theory | when hard times came, the unemployed who cluttered the city streets merely moved west, took up farming and prospered | |
| 634930359 | 100th Meridian | ran North to South from the Dakotas to Texas and separated the well-watered East from the semi-arid West | |
| 634930360 | "Dry Farming" | an organization to enhance the lives of farmers through social, educational, and fraternal activities | |
| 634930361 | Farmers' Alliance | farmers came together to socialize and to break the strangling grip of railroads and manufacturers through cooperative buying and selling | |
| 634930362 | Populism | political party, the "people's party", formed from the farmers' alliance, attacked wall street and the "money trust" and called for nationalizing the railroads, telegraph, instituting a graduated income tax, and creating a new federal subtreasury | |
| 634930363 | Coxey's Army | led by Jacob Coxey, he and many unemployed workers and reported marched in D.C. and demanded to relieve unemployment by public works programs, not successful | |
| 634930364 | Sitting Bull | defeated General Custer and American troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and American troops wanted revenge against him | |
| 634930365 | Chief Joseph | leader of the Nez Perce Indians and had to return to Kansas after trying to flee to the continental divide | |
| 634930366 | Colonel J.M. Chivington | massacred 400 Indians at Sank Creek, CO | |
| 634930367 | Geronimo | leader of the Apache tribes, pushed to Mexico but eventually moved back to reservations in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma | |
| 634930368 | General Sherman | leader at the Battle of Little Big Horn, defeated | |
| 634930369 | General Custer | was defeated at Little Big Horn by a force of 2500 native americans after trying to get them to return to a reservation | |
| 634930370 | Helen Hunt Jackson | MA writer, who sympathized with the Native Americans in her novel "A Century of Dishonor" | |
| 634930371 | John Wesley Powell | geologist and explorer who warned that agriculture would be unsuccessful in the West | |
| 634930372 | Fredrick Jackson Turner | writer of one of the most influential essays ever written, wrote about the closing of the frontier | |
| 634930373 | Aaron Montgomery Ward | created one of the first mail order companies | |
| 634930374 | Mary Elizabeth Lease | "Queen of the Populists" wanted to civilize Kansas before new states were made | |
| 634930375 | William Jennings Bryan | democratic candidate, in favor of free silver, silver in a dollar worth $.50 | |
| 634930376 | Mark Hanna | supported McKinley, made a fortune in the iron business and believed the gov't should aid business | |
| 634930377 | William McKinley | republican candidate, former congressman, major in civil war | |
| 634930378 | Comstock Lode | An area in Nevada where a lot of gold and silver was found | |
| 634930379 | Pike's Peak or Bust | Pike's peakers were people who rushed into Nevada to mine for gold, more miners than gold, could peak if found gold or bust if you didn't get a spot | |
| 634930380 | Sand Creek | 400 indians were massacred | |
| 634930381 | Wounded Knee | ghost dance cult defeated after they believed they had immunity from white soldiers | |
| 634930382 | Little Big Horn | battle where Sitting Bull defeated Sherman and Custer | |
| 634930383 | New States Admitted | Colorado, North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming | |
| 634930384 | Sioux War | Series of conflicts b/w the U.s. and the sioux indians ending with the massacre at wounded knee | |
| 634930385 | The Long Drive | Texas cowboys driving cattle to the railroads |
