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Chapter 2 Vocab
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vigilance Committee | Group of citizens that get together to find criminals |
| Hydraulic Mining | mining where high pressure water is sprayed on mountains to uncover the natural minerals |
| Open Range | grassland owned by the federal government |
| Hacienda | A huge ranch |
| Barrios | neighborhoods in atown or city that speak spanish |
| Homestead | public land acquired by living on it and harvesting it |
| dry farming | farming on dry land by burying seeds deep in the ground |
| sodbuster | name for Great Plains farmers |
| Bonanza farm | large, highly profitable wheat farm |
| nomad | person who moves places a lot to find food |
| annuity | money paid by contract at regular intervals |
| assimilate | when one group blend in to the culture of another population |
| allotment | plot of land assigned to people for a certain task |