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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Placer Mining | Using simple equipment like picks, shovels and pans to mine. |
| Quartz Mining | Mining beneath the surface |
| Henry Comstock | staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon that turned out to be nearly pure silver one. |
| Vigilance Committee | Tracked down and punished wrongdoers during the booms when law enforcement was scares. |
| Open Range | provided land where cattle raisers could grase their herds free of charge. |
| Long Drive | when ranchers rounded up cattle and drove them to Sedalia, Missouri. |
| Chisholm Trail | a cattle drving trail up to Abilene. |
| Maverick | Stray calves |
| Barbed Wire | new invention that could fence in hundreds of miles cheaply. |
| Great Plains | region of land that extended westward to the Rocky Mountains from around the 100th meridian. |
| Stephen Long | explored the region with an army expedition in 1819 called the "Great American Desert" |
| Homestead Act | for $10 could file for a homestead. Had to live there for 5 years and farm the land. |
| Homestead | a tract of public land available for settlement. |