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Mr Langhorst – South Valley Jr High Social Studies

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OUT WEST NATIVE AMERICANS LIFE IN THE WEST FARMING & POPULISM ETC Categories and amounts 100

The area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains Great Plains

Unsettled or sparsely settled area of the country largely occupied by Native Americans FRONTIER

A large deposit of gold and silver found in Western Nevada in 1859 COMSTOCK LODE

Groups of people who take the law into their own hands VIGILANTES

Land set aside for Native Americans RESERVATIONS

Signed in 1851 in Wyoming, set boundaries for tribal lands TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE

Government sends this leader with soldiers to the West to stop the Native American uprising GEORGE CUSTER

This event happens in South Dakota in 1890, the last armed resistance by Native Americans WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE

African American soldiers who fought in the West BUFFALO SOLDIERS

A piece of land with a home on it HOMESTEAD

Spanish speaking people in the American Southwest MEXICANOS

I created a traveling show that spreads the myth of the American West WILLIAM “BUFFALO BILL” CODY

I create the first steel plow JOHN DEERE

Settlers who build homes of sod on the plains SODBUSTERS

Wanted unlimited coining of silver, creates more money and prices go up FREE SILVER POLICY

An organization created in 1867 by farmers so they can have some political power GRANGE

Moving cattle from the ranch to the railroad towns for transportation LONG DRIVE

Battle in Montana in which George Custer and all 211 of his men are killed by Native Americans BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN

Created in 1862, the U.S. government offered 160 acres free to anyone who would live on it for 5 years and make improvements HOMESTEAD ACT

African Americans who moved West to set up farms EXODUSTERS

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