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vocab
Term | Definition |
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vigilance committee | group of normal citizens who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice. |
hydraulic mining | way of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and revealing the minerals beneath the surface. |
open range | wide areas of grassland owned by the federal government. |
hacienda | a huge ranch. |
barrios | Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city. |
homestead | a piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it. |
dry farming | a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture. |
sodbuster | a name given to great plains farmers. |
bonanza farm | a large, highly profitable wheat farm. |
nomad | a person who continually moves from place t place, usually in search for food. |
annuity | money paid by contract at regular intervals. |
assimilate | to absorb a group into the culture of another population. |
allotment | a plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use. |