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

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

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

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

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

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

7. The National Grange Network of local farmers’ organizations

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

9. Crazy Horse A Sioux military leader

10. Transcontinental Railway Construction completed in May 1869

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

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

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

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

15. Federal income tax A Populist proposal

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

17. vaqueros Hispanic ranch hands in the Spanish Southwest

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

19. Dakota Territory A reservation meant for the Sioux people

20. cowhands Captured the imagination of the nation