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Mannix SS Chapter 17
The West
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vigilantes | self-appointed law keepers |
| subsidy | grants of land or money |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad line that spanned the continent |
| travois | small sleds |
| tepee | cone-shaped tents made of buffalo skins |
| reservation | land set aside for Native Americans to live on |
| Sitting Bull | great Native American leader-lead attacks to keep white people out |
| open range | unfenced land |
| cattle drive | the herding and moving of cattle over long distances |
| vaquero | cowhand or cowboy |
| Cow Town | settlement at the end of a cattle trail |
| cattle kingdom | region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails, and cow towns |
| homesteader | settlers who acquired free land from the government |
| sod | surface layer of earth in which the roots of grasses tangle with soil (GRASS) |
| sodbuster | plains farmers |
| sooner | people who had already sneaked onto the land |
| grange | group of farmers who met for lectures, sewing bees and other events |
| farm cooperatives | groups of farmers who pool their money to make large purchases of tools, seeds, and other supplies at a discount price |
| inflation | rise in prices |
| William Jennings Bryan | known as the "Great Commoner" |
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