Vocab
People
Places
Words Starting in C
100
The meaning of vigilante.
What is normal people who punished criminals?
100
Hispanic ranch hands.
What is vaqueros?
100
A railroad that spans the continent and connects the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is transcontinental?
100
Money.
What is currency?
200
The meaning of subsidy.
What is financial aid and land grants from the government?
200
The winner of the 1896 presidential election.
Who is William McKinley?
200
A creek in Southwestern South Dakota where hundreds of Lakota Sioux gathered.
What is Wounded Knee?
200
Longhorns.
What is cattle?
300
To earn ownership of a land by settling on it.
What is homestead?
300
Plains farmers.
What is sodbusters?
300
The first farmers organization that offered education, fellowship and support.
What is The National Grange?
300
A Sioux military leader whom initiated the Fetterman Massacre.
Who is Crazy Horse?
400
Stores where farmers buy products off each other.
What is cooperatives?
400
The Apache leader who was the last native American to surrender.
What is Geronimo?
400
Where did the transcontinental railroad meet?
What is Promontory Summit, in Utah?
400
The discovery of the worlds richest deposits of silver-bearing ore, near Carson River in Nevada.
What is Comstock Lode?
500
Appeal to the common people.
What is populism?
500
The Great Commoner, a democrat who ran in the election of 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
Where did the Chisholm trail start?
What is San Antonio, Texas?
500
What fell when there was too much sale on the beef market for cattle?
What is Cattle Kingdom?
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