vocab
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vigilance committee | group of normal citizens who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice.
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hydraulic mining | way of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and revealing the minerals beneath the surface.
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open range | wide areas of grassland owned by the federal government.
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hacienda | a huge ranch.
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barrios | Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city.
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homestead | a piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it.
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dry farming | a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture.
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sodbuster | a name given to great plains farmers.
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bonanza farm | a large, highly profitable wheat farm.
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nomad | a person who continually moves from place t place, usually in search for food.
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annuity | money paid by contract at regular intervals.
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assimilate | to absorb a group into the culture of another population.
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allotment | a plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use.
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