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What were areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans?
Reservations
What is Deflation?
a decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices
What was the 1862 act that gave government-owned land to farmers?
Homestead Act
What is a frontier?
an area that is undeveloped
Who was the Shoshone who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition by naming plants and gathering edible fruits and vegetables for the group?
Sacagawea
What is dry farming?
farming using hardy crops that need less water than others
What were towns that serviced new mines and emptied when the mines closed?
Boomtowns
What was the Pony Express?
mail delivery system in which messengers transported mail on horseback across the country
What was giving up traditional ways and adopting the ways of a different group?
Assimilate
Who were exodusters?
African Americans who left the South for Kansas in 1879
What was the route from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico?
Sante Fe Trail
What was the Cattle Kingdom?
the name given to the Great Plains during the years when they supported great herds of cattle
What was the nickname given by Indians to African American cavalry?
Buffalo Soldiers
Who was the Populist Party?
a new national party formed by the country’s farmers
What was the long journey to explore and map out the Louisiana Purchase made by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Lewis and Clark Exepedition
What was the Oregon Trail?
the main route for Pioneers from the Mississippi River to the West Coast in the early 1800s
Who were the members of a religious group, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who moved west during the 1830s and 1840s?
Mormons
What was the transcontinental railroad?
a railroad track that ran across the United States, connecting East and West in the faster way
What was the belief that the United States was destined to expand westward across the North American continent?
Manifest Density
What was Comstock Lode?
the name given to 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada