Manifest Destiny - A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean., Transcontinental Railroad - a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States, completed in 1869, Promontory Point - Located in Utah, it is the point where the Union Pacific and Central pacific railroads met to connect the atlantic and pacific states., Fort Laramie Treaty - Treaty between the U.S. government and the Sioux Indians in 1851. The Native Americans had to stay in one place and in return the government would give money and supplies to them, assimilate - blend into the culture, reservation - A limited area of public lands set aside for Native Americans, Sitting Bull - Sioux medicine man who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse - a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877), George Custer - United States general (Civil War hero)who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876), Battle of Little Bighorn - In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Custer's troops who tried to force them back on to the reservation, Custer and all his men died (Native American victory), Battle of Wounded Knee - marked the end of armed conflict between whites and Native Americans, Chief Joseph - Lead the Nez Perce during the hostilities between the tribe and the U.S. Army in 1877. His speech "I Will Fight No More Forever" mourned the young Indian men killed in the fighting., Dawes Act - This law was passed by the government to try to Americanize the Native Americans and make them farmers, Homestead Act - Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years., Sod House - house built of soil held together by grass roots, Sodbuster - A name given to the plains farmer, long drive - the path taken by cowboys driving herds of cattle, stampede - when thousands of cattle run in a panic in all directions, Ghost Dance - A ritual the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and return the Native American tribes to their land., Black Hills - the area promised to the Sioux in the Dakota territory but this promise was broken when gold was discovered, boom town - A boomtown is a community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth, or that is started from scratch., ghost town - former mining town that became deserted, vaqueros - Spanish cowboys who taught the American cowboys skills,

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