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History 9th grade
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| transcontinental railroad | railroad that spanned the US continent |
| Great Plains | The area from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains |
| Frontier | parts of the west that were occupied mainly by native americans rather than settlers |
| solar time | time based on calculations of the suns passage across the sky |
| standard time | the time zones devised by railroad companies |
| vaquero | spanish term for cowhand |
| long dirve | journey that takes cattle by foot to a railway |
| vigilante | person who takes the law into his or her own hands |
| buffalo soldier | name native americans gave to african american soldiers in the west |
| mexicano | spanish word for a person of mexican heritage; a spanish-speaking person in the southwest whose ancestors had come from mexico |
| anglo | eniglish-speaking settler in the southwest |
| iode | deposit of mineral buried in rock |
| boomtown | town that experiences sudden growth in population or economic activity |
| black codes | laws passed by southern states that limited the freedom of formerly enslaved people |