US Studies chapter 4 Wild West

Major food source for Indians in the great plains

Buffalo

a large highly profitable wheat farm

Bonanza

Usually Indians who roamed vast distances to search for food

Nomad

Places where the us military forced Indians to relocate

reservation

Silver find of more than 230 million

comstock Lode

wrote the closing of the frontier

Frederick Jackson Turner

leader of the 7th cavalry

George Custer

inventor of the mechanical reaper

Cyrus McCormick

Indian leader of the Nez Perce

Chief Joseph

wrote A century of dishonor

Helen Hunt Jackson

Inventor of the steel plow

John Deere

Massacred by Indians along with 80 men during Red Cloud war

William Fetterman

Huge Ranch

Hacienda

Hispanic neighborhood in the major cities

barrios

Absorb the culture in larger population

assimilate

Ordinary citizens formed by law

Vigilanece committee

end to the open range

Barbed wire

Animal raised in the Great plains

longhorns

John Chivington and his men killed hundred of indians here

Sand Creek massacre

Location where the final Indian battle occurred

wounded knee

Government policy (Indians into white society )

Dawes Act

An Indian ritual

Ghost Dance

Mining by spraying high water pressure at mountains

hydraulic Mining

Great plains farmer

sod buster

Spanish Cowboy

Vaquero

location of famous gunfight

O.K. Corral

Driving cattle long distances

Long drive

method for white Americans to acquire land in the great plains

homestead

Planting seeds within the ground where there is some moisture

dry farming