UNIT 2 WILD WILD WEST

This event led to a massacre of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes, and ultimately led to these tribes being forced onto reservations

• Battle of Big Horn

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Pony Express

Pieces of land given by the government for the purpose of building public works.

• Exoduster

• Populist Party

• Dawes Act

• Land Grants

The spike used to complete the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Reservations

• Open Range

• Golden Spike

• Soddies

An area of federal land reserved for Native American tribes.

• Assimilate

• Reservations

• Land Grants

• Dawes Act

Law that restricted Chinese laborers from the United States under penalty of imprisonment and deportation.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Carlisle School

• Reservations

A vast area of land owned by the government.

• Transcontinental RR

• Exoduster

• Open Range

• Land Grant

Victory battle for the Lakota and Cheyenne; also known as Custer’s Last Stand.

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Populist Party

• Battle of Big Horn

• Sand Creek Massacre

Also known as the People’s Party, this party was created to support farmers.

• Republican Party

• Populist Party

• Golden Spike

• Carlisle School

Houses made of mud on the plains since most could not afford lumber.

• Soddies

• Brick House

• Wood House

• Grass House

Law that divided reservations into individual plots of land.

• Reservations

• Open Range

• Land Grants

• Dawes Act