1. American West Terms
(1850 to 1890)

2. Manifest Destiny

3. Great Plains (Great American Desert)

4. Transcontinental Railroad

5. Chinese or Irish/Black railroad workers

6. Homestead Act

7. Morrill Land Grant Act

8. Miners

9. Cowboys

10. Farmers

11. John Deere’s Steel Plow

12. Cyrus McCormick’s Mechanical Reaper

13. Barbed Wire (John Glidden)

14. Windmill

15. Dry Farming

16. Telegraph

17. Trail of Tears

18. Cattle Drives

19. Oklahoma (Indian Reservation)

20. Death of the Buffalo

21. Sand Creek Massacre

22. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

23. General Custer v. Sitting Bull

24. Little Big Horn

25. Ghost Dance

26. Wounded Knee

27. Helen Hunt Jackson

28. Old Policy- Forced Removal

29. New Policy- Assimilation

30. -Assimilation -Private Land
Dawes (Severalty) Act
-Assimilation
-Private Land

31. Oklahoma Land Rush

32. The Grange

33. Farmer’s Alliance

34. Populist Party (Western Farmers Political Party)

35. The Omaha Platform (Populist Party Ideals)
-Secret Ballot
-Direct Election of Senators
-Bi-Metalism
-Banking Reform
-Gov’t Ownership of Railroads
-Income Tax
8 Hour Workday

36. Bi-Metallisim

37. William Jennings Bryan

38. Cross of Gold Speech

39. Election of 1896

40. Mormons in Utah (Led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young)

41. Munn v. Illinois

42. Interstate Commerce Act