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| a river flowing S from N Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah. |
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| The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. In the United States |
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| The Plains Indians are the Indigenous peoples who live on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America. |
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| s a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world. |
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| Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. |
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| a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
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| The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also called the Sioux Treaty of 1868) was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation[1] signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. |
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| The Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory,[3] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. |
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| On the morning of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry charged into battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians. |
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| Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] "one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. |
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| Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske (October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was a United States poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. |
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| Cultural assimilation is the process by which a person or a group's language and, or culture come to resemble those of another group |
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| Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter. |
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| is an independent city and a major United States port on the eastern line of the state of Missouri. |
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| The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887),[1][2] adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
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| The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah,[1] also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement which was incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. |
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| The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890,[4] near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. |
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| Buckaroo, a cowboy of the Great Basin and California region of the United States, from an Anglicization of the Spanish word vaquero |
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| is a historic term for a local businessman and landowner who possessed great power or influence[1] through the operation of a large ranch with many beef cattle. Cattle barons in the late 19th century United States were also sometimes referred to as cowmen,[2] stockmen, or just ranchers. |
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| were a major economic activity in the American west, particularly between 1866 and 1886, when 20 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east |
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| are the six states in the United States forming a north-south line from North Dakota to Texas. |
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| is the name given to settlers in the midwest of the United States who entered the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma before President Grover Cleveland officially proclaimed them open to settlement on March 2, 1889 with the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889. |
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| was a corollary to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States. |
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| was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879. |
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| are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, including the Morrill Act of 1862 |
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| gave federal funds, initially of $15,000 each, to state land-grant colleges in order to create a series of agricultural experiment stations, as well as pass along new information, especially in the areas of soil minerals and plant growth |
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| Men who fought guerrilla style warfare |
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| is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. |
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| from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains |
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| was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. |
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| is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). |
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| when horses still powered most machinery, excepting windmills and stationary steam engines, the term was common and popular in both British and North American literary articles. |
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| Man that invented the steel plow and is now branded as the farming supply company of the world |
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| was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902 |
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| were very large farms in the United States performing large-scale operations, mostly growing and harvesting wheat. Bonanza farms were made possible by a number of factors including: the efficient new farming machinery of the 1870s, the cheap abundant land available during that time period, the growth of eastern markets in the U.S., and the completion of most major railroads. |
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| he term greenback refers to legal tender, printed in green on one side and issued by the United States during the American Civil War which was backed not by the conventional gold or silver standard but by the credibility of the U.S. Government. |
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| a commitment by participating countries to fix the prices of their domestic currencies in terms of a specified amount of gold. |
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| is a 19th-century country house—mansion and English landscape park near Northington in Hampshire, England. |
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| is a cooperative where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives, where production resources (land, machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly. |
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| was much younger than the Democratic and Republican Parties, which had been founded before the Civil War. |
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| is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both[1] to a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of silver; such a system establishes a fixed rate of exchange between the two metals. |
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| was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. |
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| was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. |
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| was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. |
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