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Chapter 2 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Vigilance Committee | Groups of volunteers that took the Law in their own hands. |
Hydraulic Mining | Mining using high water pressure to remove large quantities of earth. |
Open Range | A vast grassland that the government made public. |
Hacienda | Huge ranches owned by elite landowners. |
Barrios | Hispanic settled neighborhoods. |
Homestead | An amount of public land that is available for settlement. |
Dry Farming | Method of planting seeds deep enough to gain moister. |
Sodbuster | People who plowed the great plains. |
Bonanza Farms | Large wheat farms that yielded large amounts of profit. |
Nomad | People who roam the lands in search of food. |
Annuity | Money paid by contract at regular intervals. |
Assimilate | To merge into another groups culture. |
Allotment | A plot of land assigned to an individual or family to use. |