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chap 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Viligance Committee | Volunteers who act as the police force |
| Hydraulic mining | method of mining when water is sprayed against mountain and washes away dirt, gracel, and rock. This leaves the minerals. |
| open range | big area of grass that the goverment owns |
| Hacienda | a big ranch |
| Barrios | neighboorhoods with spanish speaking community |
| homestead | public land availabke for settlement |
| dry farming | planting seeds deep in thr ground where there is moisture |
| sodbuster | Great Plains farmers |
| Bonanza farm | big wheat farm that makes alot of money |
| nomad | people who roamed and followed their food (buffalos) |
| annuity | money paid by contarct reguarly |
| assimiliate | to get a group to follow another culture |
| allotment | land given to a family for specfic use |