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Chapter 18 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| frontier | an undeveloped area |
| boomtown | a Western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disappeared when the boom ended |
| cattle drive | a long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or better grazing lands |
| transcontinental railroad | a railroad system that crossed the continental United States: construction began in 1863 |
| reservations | federal lands set aside for American Indians |
| buffalo soldiers | African American soldiers who served in the cavalry during the wars for the west |
| Homestead Acts | (1862) a law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to the small farmers |
| Exodusters | African Americans who settled western lands in the late 1800s |
| sodbusters | the name given to the Plains farmers who worked hard to break up the region’s tough sod |
| dry farming | a method of farming used by Plains farmers in the 1890s that shifted focus from water-dependent crops to mostly hardy crops |
| deflation | a decrease in money supply and overall lower prices |
| Populist Party | a political party formed in 1892 that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, immigration restriction, and government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone systems |
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