Updated Terms Study Sheet

Picture: Measuring Cottonwood Trees at Homestead National Monument, 2008

History of the Great Plains, Terms Study Sheet

Identify each term in 2-4 sentences. Make sure to provide both a factual description and an explanation of the term’s significance in the context of Great Plains history. You will have to identify 10 of these terms on the test. This is an updated list that covers approximately the material we have covered thus far in the first month of class.

The Great Plains
Walter Prescott Webb
Comanche

Comanche-Apache Conflict
Texas Frontier Strategy
Ute
Smallpox Epidemic 1837-8
The Columbian Exchange
The Black Hills
Deadwood
Buffalo Jump
Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Santa Fe Trail
Horse Culture
Meat Culture

Taos
Trade Fairs

Llano Estacado

Comancheria

Repartimiento labor system
New Spain
Mexican Revolution
Quanah Parker
Agrarianism
“Agrarian Myth”
Jeffersonian Agrarian Democracy
Little Bighorn
Metis
Clovis People
Blackfeet
Sweet Grass Hills
“Noble Savage”
The Homestead Act of 1862
Badlands
The Sandhills
Wounded Knee
John Wesley Powell

The Big Horns
Range Wars
Longhorns
Big Bluestem
The Dust Bowl
O.E. Rolvaag
Willa Cather