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Term | Definition |
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Assimilate | To absorb a group into the culture of another population. |
Vigilance committee | Group of citizens formed by local law to find criminals. |
Annuity | Money paid by the contract. |
Barrios | Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in a city. |
Bonanza farm | A big highly profitable wheat farm. |
Allotment | A part of land assigned to an individual for cultivation. |
Dry farming | A way of farming a dry land by planting seeds deeper than usual. |
Hydraulic mining | Method of mining in which water under a high pressure is sprayed against a hill to remove the dert. |
Homestead | A piece of U.S. republic land available for settlement. |
Hacienda | A huge ranch. |
Nomad | A person that moves from place to place to find the food. |
Open range | Big areas of grassland owned by the federal government. |
Sodbuster | A name of Great Plains farmers. |