Reconstruction Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Vigilance Committee | people that volunteered to track down and punish crimnals . |
Hydraulic Mining | a lazier way to find minerals by using high pressured water to removed the large areas of earth. |
Open Range | a large piece of land owned by the federal government. |
Haciendas | a huge ranch that over a thousand acres. |
Barrios | a spanish speaking "town" that tried to keep the spanish culture alive. |
Homestead | a piece of public land that was available to anyone and would receive a title after 5 years. |
Dry Farming | a type of farming were you plant seeds deep in the group so they can receive moisture. |
Sodbuster | a nickname for the Great Plain farmers. |
Bonanza Farm | a large wheat farm that made big profits by forming companies ,investing into property , hiring laborers and etc.. |
Nomad | Natives that migrated with the buffalo. |
Annuities | money paid by contract |
Assimilate | to absorb a group of people to a new culture of living. |
Allotment | Land assigned to someone or a family . |
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