Wild West

Henry Comstock

Found gold and silver in Nevada

Jesse Chisholm

Cattle trail from Texas to midwestern states

Wyatt Earp

Lawman

Sitting Bull

Victory at Battle of Little Bighorn

Black Kettle

Sand creek massacre (Cheyenne)

William F Cody

Buffalo Bill, buffalo bills Wild West show

George A Custer

loss at battle or little big horn

Sand creek massacre

Colorado, black kettle vs. chivington , Cheyenne, native massacred by Americans on their way to a reservation

Battle of little big horn

Montana, sitting bull vs. Custer , Sioux, big native victory

Battle/massacre at wounded knee

South Dakota, spotted elk vs. Forsythe, Lakota tribe, ghost dance: dance done by natives because they believed it would restore their lands and peace, American attacked out of fear of ghost dance

Treaty of fort Laramie

Between natives and Americans, gave natives lands (Great Plains), government eventually took these when they wanted more land

Homestead act

Farmers and ranchers, the government was giving out land for free which people took advantage of and it caused lots of people to move out west and start farming

Dawes act

Native American families got almost 500 acres of land on the reservation, when the natives rejected this Americans took their children and forced their ways onto them

Pacific railway act

Government gives land to railroad companies

Morrill act

States got land to create agricultural colleges

Placer mining

Simple, surface gold, panning, cheapest, individuals

Hydraulic mining

Wash away, hydraulic jets, big business

Quartz

Hard rock mining, most labor, expensive, underground, big business

Long drive

Cattle drives across the plains

Longhorn

Type of cow

Maverick

Unmarked cow

Brand

cow identification

Sodbuster

Farmers, used sod to build houses

Assimilation

Native children being forcefully taught American ways

Boomtowns

Towns that were created and boomed because of cattle ranching and mining