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UShist 1.2
Quiz practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cities that sprang up overnight | boomtowns |
| people who claimed land in the southwest | Mexicanos |
| industry using long drives | cattle |
| influenced the styles of cowhands in the West | Spanish horsemen |
| Spanish cowboys | vaqueros |
| moved to the Great Plains and fenced their lands with barbed wire | settlers |
| more and more of these people settled in the Southwest, reducing the power of the Mexicanos | Anglos |
| cowhands that had been born in slavery, but came west at the end of Reconstruction | African-Americans |
| African Americans who served in the US Army in the West | Buffalo Soldiers |
| vigilante | person who takes the law into his or her own hands |