1. Vocabulary Terms to understand history
Chapter 15
Vocabulary Terms to understand history

2. Hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to kill buffalo on the Plains
William Cody
Hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to kill buffalo on the Plains

3. Populist demand for the unlimited production of coinage
Free silver
Populist demand for the unlimited production of coinage

4. Cattle drive that began in Texas each spring
Long Drive
Cattle drive that began in Texas each spring

5. Homestead Act
Gave land on the Plains to any settler who would live there for five years

6. Proposed to make Native Americans landowners and farmers
Dawes Act
Proposed to make Native Americans landowners and farmers

7. Cities that grew very quickly around gold mining sites
boomtowns
Cities that grew very quickly around gold mining sites

8. Network of local farmers’ organizations
The National Grange
Network of local farmers’ organizations

9. African American soldiers in segregated units after the Civil War
Buffalo Soldiers
African American soldiers in segregated units after the Civil War

10. A Sioux military leader
Crazy Horse
A Sioux military leader

11. Transcontinental Railway
Construction completed in May 1869

12. Little Bighorn
Site of a battle between George Custer’s troops and the Sioux and Cheyenne

13. Had to develop new methods of farming on the Plains
sodbusters
Had to develop new methods of farming on the Plains

14. Had its roots in the Farmers’ Alliances
Populist Party
Had its roots in the Farmers’ Alliances

15. Laid railroad track westward from Omaha, Nebraska
Union Pacific Company
Laid railroad track westward from Omaha, Nebraska

16. Federal income tax
A Populist proposal

17. Marked the end of armed conflict between whites and Native Americans
Wounded Knee
Marked the end of armed conflict between whites and Native Americans

18. Hispanic ranch hands in the Spanish Southwest
vaqueros
Hispanic ranch hands in the Spanish Southwest

19. Central Pacific Company
Hired 10,000 Chinese laborers at low wages to work on railroad tracks

20. A reservation meant for the Sioux people
Dakota Territory
A reservation meant for the Sioux people

21. Captured the imagination of the nation
cowhands
Captured the imagination of the nation