Chapter 2 Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Vigilance Committee | Groups of volunteers that took the Law in their own hands.
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| Hydraulic Mining | Mining using high water pressure to remove large quantities of earth.
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| Open Range | A vast grassland that the government made public.
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| Hacienda | Huge ranches owned by elite landowners.
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| Barrios | Hispanic settled neighborhoods.
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| Homestead | An amount of public land that is available for settlement.
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| Dry Farming | Method of planting seeds deep enough to gain moister.
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| Sodbuster | People who plowed the great plains.
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| Bonanza Farms | Large wheat farms that yielded large amounts of profit.
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| Nomad | People who roam the lands in search of food.
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| Annuity | Money paid by contract at regular intervals.
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| Assimilate | To merge into another groups culture.
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| Allotment | A plot of land assigned to an individual or family to use.
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