KEY TERMS

Great Plains (p. 461)

transcontinental railroad (p. 462)

Treaty of Fort Laramie (p. 465)

Battle of the Little Big Horn (p. 466)

buffalo soldiers (p. 466)

Dawes Act (p. 467)

Ghost Dance (p. 468)

Comstock Lode (p. 469)

Long Drive (p. 471)

Homestead Act (p. 474)

Mormons (p. 478)

Californios (p. 479)

Chinese Exclusion Act (p. 481)