Chapter 26 Terms (to do) and terms you should know

Chapter 26 Terms to DO (remember: WWWW and Why it's important) and connect to Curriculum Framework

1. 100th Meridian
2. Reservation System
3. Sand Creek Massacre
4. Battle of Little Bighorn
5. Battle of Wounded Knee
6. Dawes Severalty Act
7. Homestead Act
8. Frederick Jackson Turner
9. Mechanization of farming
10. Deflation
11. Granger laws
12. Populist Party
13. Pullman Strike
14. Election of 1896
15. Cross of Gold speech

Terms to be familiar with: (a good idea would be to try and include them when appropriate for your identifications)

Ft. Laramie Treaty

George Custer

Chief Joseph

Geronimo

Buffalo

Helen Hunt Jackson

“Ghost Dance”

Carlisle Indian School

“Fifty-Niners”

Comstock Lode

Boomtowns

Silver Senators

Long Drive

Abilene, Kansas

Cowboy

Sodbusters

Bonanza Farms

Sooners

Combine

Barbed wire

Dry farming

Homestead Act

Pacific Railway Act

Morrill Land Grant Act

Promontory Point

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

1890 Census

“safety valve” theory

Exoduster

Bozeman Trail

49ers

Frederick Remington