Group of ordinary citizens who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice.
What is vigilance committee?
100
A piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it.
What is a homestead?
100
Money paid by contract at regular intervals.
What is an annuity?
100
Paper money
What is greenbacks?
100
Way of life.
What is culture?
200
Method 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 exposing the minerals beneath the surface.
What is hydraulic mining?
200
A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture.
What is dry farming?
200
To absorb a group into the culture of another group.
What is assimilate?
200
System where local farmers pooled their resources to purchase new machinery and supplies to sell their produce without paying distributors.
What are cooperatives?
200
The act of people from other countries permanently relocating to the United States.
What is immigration?
300
Vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government.
What is the open range?
300
A name given to Great Plains farmers.
What is a sodbuster?
300
A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use.
What is an allotment?
300
Basing the U.S. dollar on silver as well as gold.
What is bimetallism?
300
The overthrow or renunciation of one ruler or government and substitution of another by the governed.
What is revolution?
400
A huge ranch.
What is a hacienda?
400
A large, highly profitable wheat farm.
What is a bonanza farm?
400
Belief that it was the United States' destiny to expand and possess territory from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
400
Steel plow, windmills and barbed wire.
What tools and/or devices made farming possible?
400
Factors that make people want to leave a geographic region. Examples are wars, political unrest, political or religious persecution, natural disasters and lack of economic opportunities.
What is a push factor?
500
Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city.
What is a barrios?
500
A person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food.
What is a nomad?
500
Parcels of land set aside by the federal government for the Native Americans.
What are reservations?
500
System in which farmers borrowed money against their crops, thereby slipping further and further into debt.
What is the crop lien system?
500
Factors that attract people to a geographic area. Political freedom, economic opportunities, religious freedom are examples.