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A frontier is an undevolped area.

The Comstock Lode was a huge deposit of gold and silver in Nevada discovered by miner Henry Comstock in 1859

Boomtowns were communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.

The Cattle Kingdom was the great plains stretching from Texas to Canada where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s

Cattle Drives where long journeys where cowboys herded cattle to the market or the Northern Plains

The Chisholm Trail ran from SA, Texas to Abilene, Kansas- it was one of the most popular routes for cattle drive

The Pony Express was a series of messengers on horseback in the 1860's that carried messages to the West

The Treaty of Fort Laramie was the first major treaty between the Native Americans and the United States- it settled land disputes

Reservations where areas of federal land set aside for indians.

The Treaty of Medicine Lodge divided nations- some were willing to live on designated reservations, other tribes were NOT.

Buffalo Soldiers where African American soldiers on horse back who pushed the Native Americans back on reservations.

The Treaty of Fort Atkinson provided a great deal of land to the Native Americans

The Massacre at Wounded Knee was when the U.S Army shot and killed about 150 Sioux near wounded knee creek in South Dakota

A ghost dance was a religous and spiritual dance used to celebrate the paradise the Native Americans would one day be in

• Homestead Act-1862
• -gave government owned land to small farmers
• -single women included
• -160 acres of land
• -had to live and develop the land for at least five years

• Morill Act
• -granted 17 million acres of Federal Land to the states
• -states must sell the land
• -must use the money to establish universities in the state

"Sodbusters" was a name given to the farmers who had to work hard to break up the dry soil

Deflation was a decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices

The National Grange was a social and educational organization for farmers

Exodusters where Southerners who made a mass departure from the south

dry farming was a new method of farming that shifted focus away from water dependent crops such as corn- wheat

• Populist Party
• -government owned rail roads and telegraph systems
• -free and unlimited silver
• -eight hour workday
• -limits on immigration

William Jennings Bryan backed political candidates who favored free silver coinage and he ran for president in the 1896 Election