Miners and Ranchers
Farming the Plains
Native Americans
Vocabulary
Main Ideas
100
A prospector who stacked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon near Virginia City, Nevada
Who is Henry Comstock?
100
Once thought to be worthless land, was turned into America's Wheat Belt
What are the Great Plains?
100
Annual payments from the government.
What is Annuities?
100
Quickly growing towns
What is a boomtown?
100
Millions of tons of silt,sand, and gravel were washed into local rivers.
How did hydraulic mining affect the environment?
200
To take out or move something hidden beneath the surface.
What does extract mean?
200
For $10 registration fee, an indivisdual could file for a homestead
What is the Homestead Act?
200
What proposed creating two large reservation on the Plains.
What is the Indian Peace Commission?
200
often law and order was enforfed by self appointed volunteers who would track down and punsh wrongdoers
What is vigilance committees?
200
More settlers moved into the state and Spanish speaking people became the minorities.
How did the gold rush change society in California?
300
The Texas Longhorn cattle was an ______________breed of cattle that could survive the tough prairie grasses.
What is adapted?
300
Hugh ranches that covered thousand of acres
What is a haciendas?
300
A Lieutenant Colonel who led the seventh cavalry to the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Who is George A. Custer?
300
to move large qualities of earth and process is for minerals
What is hydraulic mining?
300
Driving cattle long distance to a railroad deposit for transport and great profit.
What is long drive?
400
Quicking growing towns
What is a boomtown?
400
To plant seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture to grow.
What is Dry Farming?
400
Where families could be self-supporting
What is Allotments?
400
Huge ranches that cover thousands of acres
What is haciendas?
400
Huge ranches that covered thousands of acres.
What is haciendas?
500
Hispanic-settled neighborhoods
What are barrios?
500
Those who plowed the Plains.
What is Sodbusters?
500
This Act alloted to each head of household 160 Acres of reservation land for farming.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
A major who explored the regions of the Great Plains
Who is Stephen Long?
500
New idea or method.
What is innovation?
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