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Who is the prospector who found a large vein of silver near Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada?
Who is Henry Comstock?
What was the new farming technique in the Great Plains where seeds were planted deep in the ground where there was more moisture to grow?
What is dry farming?
What is name of the mining technique that involves digging deeper into the ground/surface to find minerals and ores?
What is quartz mining?
What is the name for a stray calf with no identifying brand or symbol?
What is a maverick?
What is the name of the Lakota Sioux ritual that was designed to hope for the day that the settlers leave and the buffalo return?
What is the Ghost Dance?
What was the name for a group of people who roam/travel great distances? (Think: the Plains Indians)
What are nomads?
What is the name for a large, profitable wheat farm that spans 50,000+ acres and is usually owned by corporations?
What is a bonanza farm?
What is the name of the mining technique that uses simple tools like picks and shovels to extract shallow deposits of ore and minerals?
What is placer mining?
What is the name of the government-owned land where farmers could graze their cattle herds for free?
What is the open range?
What is the name of the government commission that created two reservations for Native Americans on the Great Plains?
What is the Indian Peace Commission?
Who was the US military leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Who is General George Custer?
What is the name for a tract of public land available for sale and settlement?
What is a homestead?
What are the two main industries out West in the late 1800s?
What is mining and ranching?
What is called where cattle where moved long distances from the Open Range to railroad stations in more northern states?
What is the Long Drive?
What are payments made to Native Americans on reservations?
What are annuities?
What was the name for groups of ordinary citizens out West who tracked down criminals to bring them to justice?
What are vigilance committees?
What type of fencing led to the end of the Open Range?
What is barbed wire?
What type of ore did Henry Comstock find?
What is silver?
What is the name of one of the most famous trails on the Long Drive?
What is the Chisholm Trail?
What is the name for a parcel (piece) of land?
What is an allotment?
What was the nickname for settlers who plowed the dirt on the Great Plains?
Who were sodbusters?
What is the name of the productive farming area that began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains?
What is the the Wheat Belt?
What were the three main ores found out West?
What is gold, silver, and copper?
What is the name for the 1862 act where settlers could receive 160 acres of land for $10 if they lived on the land and developed it for 5 years?
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the name for the act that relocated Native Americans to reservations and sold their remaining land to settlers?
What is the Dawes Act?