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American History
American History Chapter 19 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nat Love | African American cow hand that later becomes a rodeo star |
| Frontier | unsettled or sparsely settled area of a country |
| Dodge City | Lawless city mostly populated by cowboys |
| Lode | A long string of metal in the earth |
| Great Plans | area from the missouri river to the rocky mountians |
| Transcontinetal Railroad | railroad crossing the contient |
| Standrad Time | this is what time is called in one region |
| Boomtown | "A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth" |
| Long Drive | cowboys drive cows on a long drive |
| vaqueo | cattlehands |
| Vilgiante | "people who took the law into their own hands" |
| Reservation | land that was set aside for the Native Americans |
| Sand Creek Massacre | Coloeado Milta opens fire on village killing more than 150 poeple. |
| Sitting Bull | One of the two Sioux Chiefs |
| George A. Custer | was a Civil War hero. he and some 211 people came into contact with some Native Americans and after only 2 hours of fighting were wiped out. |
| Battle of Little Big Horn | This was the battle that George A. Custer fought in |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | This was a massacre of miss understanding. The amemrican government thought that the Native Americans were going to try to go to war so they sent troops in. A gun shot was set off by accident and the Americand then killed over 300 hundred people. |
| Dawes Act | This act was trying to make Native Americans drop their traditional ways and become farmers |
| Homestead | An area of land with a house on it |
| Mexicano | Spanish speaking Southwesterners |
| Buffalo Soldiers | troops of African American soldiers (nicknamed by the Native Americans) |
| William "Buffalo Bill" Cody | Buffalo huntmans turned showman |
| Homestead Act | act the promised free 160 acres to anyone that wanted it in the west |
| Exoduster | fomer slaves that were moving to kansas because of disceimaination |
| Sod Buster | people that worked on the priare to make it more livable |
| Grange | A group of angry farmers |
| Cooperative | groups or organisation |
| Populist Party | this party wanted "the government to adopt a free silver policy" |
| Gold Standard | the government decided how much a dollor is worth with gold |
| William Jennings Bryan | was backed by the poulists party when they joined the Democrats |
| Supply | the amount of thing that you have |
| Demand | the amount of want for the thing/item that you have |
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