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| 1864 attack in which as many as 200 cheyenne men were killed by the Colorado militia |
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| sioux cheif who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |
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| commander of the U.S. troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn |
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| 1876 battle on which Sioux and Cheyenne killed an entire force of U.S. troops |
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| 1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners |
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| mass killing by U.S. soldiers of as many as 300 unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 |
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| characterized by moving from place to place |
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| land set aside for Native American tribes |
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| 1862 law that offered 160 acres free to anyone who agreed to live on and improve tha land for five years |
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| name for the African Americans who settled on the Great Plains |
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| name for pioneer farmers on the Great Plains |
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| organization formed in 1867 to meet the social needs of farm families |
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| political party formed in the 1890s that wanted a policy that would raise crop prices |
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| a policy under which the government backs every dollar with a certian ammont of gold |
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| Democratic and Populist candidate for President in 1896 who advocated a policy of free silver |
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| the top layer of prarie soil that contains thick, tightly tangled grass roots |
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| transcontinental railroad |
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| railroad that spanned the U.S. continent |
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| the area from the Missiouri River to the Rocky Mountains |
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| parts of the West that were occupied mainly by the Native Americans, rather than settlers |
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| time based on calculations of the sun's passage across the sky |
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| the time zones devised by railroad companies |
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| journet that tales cattle by foot to a railway |
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| person who takes the law into his own hands |
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| name Native Americans gave to African American soldiers in the west |
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| Spanish word for a person of Mexican heritage; a spanish speaking person in the southwest whose ancestors had come from Mexico |
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| english speaking settler in the southwest |
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| deposit of mineral buried in rock |
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| town that experiences sudden growth in population or economic activity |
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