1. Chapter 13-14 Vocab Words Great Plains Sitting Bull Assimilation
Dawes Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
George Custer
Homestead Act
Exoduster
Grange
Farmers Alliances
Populism
Bimetallism
Gold standard
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
Bessemer Process
Thomas Edison
Transcontinental Railroad
George Pullman
Interstate Commerce Act

2. Sitting Bull: Indian chief that defeated George Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn
George Custer: U.S. Colonel that was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn
William McKinley: 25th President of the U.S. who ran on the Republican ticket and supported the gold standard.
William Jennings Bryan: Politician who ran for president in the 1896 election; delivered the “Cross of Gold” speech where he supported bimetallism.
Thomas Edison: established the world’s 1st research lab in Menlo Park, NJ; invented such things as the light bulb.
George Pullman: built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars.