Specific areas set aside by the government for Native Americans
What are reservations?
100
Law that guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
100
self-appointed law enforcers who punished law breakers in mining towns
What are vigilantes?
100
When Sioux lured Captain William Fetterman and his troops into an ambush
What is the Fetterman Massacre?
100
Law passed by Congress in May 1862 providing homesteaders with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Act that officially ended the reservation system in 1887
What is the Dawes Allotment Act?
200
Crops grown to be sold rather than for personal use
What are cash crops?
200
Towns that thrived only as long as gold and silver held out
What are boomtowns?
200
Battle where George Custer met a huge Sioux force and perished along with 250 of his men
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
200
African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 19th century
Who are Exodusters?
300
Treaty signed by the U.S. to pacify the Sioux and gain more land
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868?
300
Organization created by Texas farmers in the 1870s that tried to convince the government to force railroads to lower freight prices so members could get their crops to markets outside the South at reduced rates
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
300
A rail link between the East and the West supported by Congress through loans and land grants
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
Series of conflicts ends with defeat of southern Plains Indians. Texas panhandle opened to white settlement.
What is the Red River War?
300
Places where cowboys stopped, dropped off cattle, and were paid
What are cow towns?
400
Defended the Indian's way of life in her novel, A Century of Dishonor
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
400
Animal that appeared in Texas in the early 1890s and destroyed cotton fields in the south
What is the boll weevil?
400
First wire technology created in 1867 capable of restraining cattle
What is barbed wire?
400
Nez Perces flees more than 1,000 miles but are forced to surrender just short of the Canadian border
What is the Nez Perce War?
400
Unsuccessful effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture
What is assimilation?
500
Battle in South Dakota that ended the Ghost Dance War and sealed the end of the Native American resistance
What is the Battle of Wounded knee?
500
Center of steel industry in the late 1800s
What is Alabama?
500
Black businessman from Tennessee who helped organized a group of African Americans called the "Exodusters"
Who is Benjamin Singleton?
500
Battle where U.S. trrops killed unarmed Cheynee and Arapho men, women, and children
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
Dominated southern agricultural economy during the late 1880s, but by the 1900s, its appeal and cultivation decreased dramatically