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UShist 1.2
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Question | Answer |
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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 |