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- buffalo soldier
- troops including african american calvary
- long walk
- the navajo indians were forced to walk across the desert in new mexico
- national grange
- a social and educational orginization
- chislom trail
- ran from sanantonio to kansas
- cattle kingdom
- the great plains from texas to canada where many ranchers raised cattle
- ghost dance
- the predictied arrival of paradise for the native americans
- reservations
- area set a side for native americans
- sodbusters
- a nick name for farmers that broke up sod
- populist party
- called for th government to own railraoads telephone and tele graph
- massacare of wounded knee
- the u.s army shot about 150 sioux
- pony express
- messengers on horse backwho carried messages from the west
- treaty of medicicne lodge
- most sothern indians agrred to live on reservations
- battle of little big horn
- sioux led by crazy horse and sitting bull deafeated custer troops
- dry farming
- a new method of farming
- cattle drive
- on these long journeys cowboys hered cattle
- dawes general alloment act
- tried to lessen traditianal influences on indian society
- trans continental
- connect east to west by railroad
- booomtowns
- communties that grew when mines opened
- homestad act
- gave government owned land to small farmers
- exodusters
- these southerners made a mass exdous
- treaty of fort laramie
- the first major treaty between the us and the palin indians
- comstock lode
- henry comestock dicoverd a huge deposit of gold and silver in nevada
- the morrile act
- granted more that 17 acres of federal land
- frontier
- an undevolped area
- deflation
- a decreace in money