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SS chapter 18 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reservation | the act of reserving something |
| lode | a vain of ore |
| transcontinental | the crossing of continents |
| vigilante | people who take the law into there own hands |
| brand | a mark of ownership put on an animal |
| ghost town | a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out. |
| subsidy | a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like. |
| ore | a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit. |
| Open Range | a large area of grass land |
| nomadic | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. |
| Homestead act | an agricultural and suburban city in southeastern Florida, southwest of Miami; pop. 57,936 (est. 2008). |