People/ Groups
Lesson1-4 Vocabulary
Events
Documents/ other Vocab
Lessons 5-7 Vocabulary
100

This man led the Native Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn. 

Crazy Horse

100

An Unexplored or newly settled area is called a? 

Frontier

100

This event marked the end of Native Religious Resistance in 1890. 

Wounded Knee Massacre 

100

This Document offered Western Land to Western Settlers

Homestead Act

100

Famelands are also no as what kinds of areas?

Rural

200

This man led the Americans at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

General Custer

200

A spiritual Native ritual

Used to reconnect with ancestors. 

Ghost Dance

200

The age in American History where everything seemed wealthy on top, but there were serious problems underneath, is called? 

The Gilded Age

200

This Act supported the railroad construction across the United States.

Pacific Railway Act

200

Cities or towns are what kinds of areas?

Urban

300

A Native American Tribe made up of many other tribes. 

The Lakota

300

The Natives were asked by the Americans to adopt their culture and their language while forgetting their Native ways. This would be a great way for them to blend into society.  This is called? 

Assimilation

300

During the Gilded Age, waves of people sailed into America from other countries to find work and other opportunities. These people were called? 

Immigrents

300

Native American land was divided up by the government, and the NAtives Americans themselves were pushed to assimilate into American Society. 

The Dawn Act

300

Crowded and poorly built apartment buildings. 

Tenements

400

Powerful men who used power and money to influence laws during the Gilded Age. 

Political Bosses

400

This land was specifically set aside by the American Government for the Native Americans to use. 

Native Reservations. 

400

A Railroad that connected the eastern and western coasts of America. 

The Trasncontinental Railway

400

When different households in the same area have different levels of income. 

Income Inequality

400

When people look for city jobs because they are more profitable, they move to the city. This phenomenon is called?

Urbanization

500

Organizations that controlled Local Governments were called?

Political Machines

500

America began settling the land out west. This era was called?

Western Expansion

500

A series of battle between Native Americans and American Settlers

The Indian Wars (The Native American Wars)

500

A battle where Native Americans defeated the Americans. 

The Battle of Little Bighorn

500

This word describes a shift to industry and machine-based jobs.

Industrialism

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