1. Goal 4 Vocabulary Internet Scavenger Hunt
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2. Great Plains
The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

3. Treaty of Fort Laramie
This is a treaty made between the U.S. government and the Sioux tribe. . It guaranteed the Sioux the territory in South Dakota west of the Missouri River.

4. Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies

5. George A. Custer
Custer died in the Battle of Little Big Horn against the Lakota in The Lakota won the battle.

6. Changing to fit in with everyone else or a certain group.
Assimilation
Changing to fit in with everyone else or a certain group.

7. Dawes Act
This forced the Native Americans to start becoming farmers and landowners and forcing them to leave their nomadic lives.

8. Battle of Wounded Knee
Some 200 Native Americans were massacred here by U.S. troops on December 29, In 1973 a standoff between Indian activists and U.S. law officers resulted in deaths on both sides.

9. Longhorn
a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns, which can extend to 7 feet

10. Chisholm Trail
A 19th-century route primarily used for driving cattle from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.

11. Long Drive
long overland treks on which cowboys herded cattle from ranches to rail lines

12. Homestead Act
The Homestead Act is one of several United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres

13. Exoduster
The people of the migration of African-Americans to Kansas during the Reconstruction era of American history.

14. A soddy is a house made of tightly packed grass and soil.

15. Union Pacific
Union Pacific operates North America's premier railroad franchise, covering 23 states in the western two-thirds of the United States

16. Central Pacific
Founded in 1861 by some California merchants; thousands of chinese laborers were hired to built the railroad.

17. Bonanza Farms
very large farms in the United States performing large-scale operations

18. a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings.
Grange
a farm, with its farmhouse and nearby buildings.

19. Populism
the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite.

20. Bimetallism
A system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other.

21. William McKinley
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901.

22. William Jennings Bryan
a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States.