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History vocab USII.4
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boom towns | Western communities that grew quickly because of the mining boom |
| Texas longhorn | hardy breed of cattle raised by ranchers throughout western Texas. |
| assimilate | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into another |
| Open range | Public lands used by ranchers to graze herds. |
| SodBusters | Name given to both the Plains farmers and their plows they used to break up the region's tough sod . |
| Range rights | rights to water sources on the Great Plains; ranchers bought these rights to give them exclusive control of both the water and land around it. |
| Vaqueros | Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses. |
| Roundup | Act of driving cattle together and collecting them in a herd. |
| Cattle drive | Long journeys on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or grazing lands |
| Range wars | Battles among large ranchers, small ranchers, and farmers on the Great Plains for use of the open range. |
| Homestead Act | law written in 1862 to encourage people to move west of the Mississippi River. |
| Reservations | Federal lands set aside for Native Americans. |
| Dry farming | Method of farming used by Great Plains farmers in the 1890s that allowed them to grow certain crops with less water . |
| Bonanza | a large find of precious ore. |
| Exoduster | African American Plains farmer who was named after the second book of the bible |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a railroad that crossed the U.S., connecting the East to the West . |