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Section 1 Vocab
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Section 3 Vocab
Fact's 1
Fact's 2
100
A huge ranch.
What is a hacienda.
100
A track of public land available.
What is a homestead?
100
People who roamed vast distances, following their main food source.
What is a nomad.
100
What was the first major uprising in 1862?
What is the Dakota Sioux Uprising.
100
How did the Great Plains grow after the years?
What is grew steadily up.
200
Miners spray water at high pressures against a mountain or hill to wash away dirt.
What is hydraulic mining.
200
To plant seeds deep in the ground where the moisture is to grow.
What is dry farming?
200
Annual payments from the government.
What is annuities.
200
The Native Americans wanted to protect?
What is their hunting grounds.
200
Who was Stephen Long?
Who is the guy who explored the Great American Desert.
300
Driving cattle long distances to depots for fast transportation and high profits.
What is a long drive.
300
A name given to Great Plains farmers.
What is a sodbuster?
300
A group in which proposed 2 large reservations.
What is the Indian Peace Commission.
300
In the Dawes Act, how many acres did single adults receive?
What is 80 acres.
300
What was the Wheat Belt?
What is the edge of the Great Plains and encompassed much of the Dakotas and parts of Nebraska and Kansas.
400
A wast area of grassland that is owned by the federal government.
What is the open range.
400
A large high profitable wheat farm.
What is a bonanza farm?
400
Dividing reservations into individual plots, letting families become self-supported.
What is allotments.
400
Who refused to be moved to a smaller reservation in Idaho in 1877?
Who is Chief Joseph.
400
Cowboys drove what from North Texas to Kansas and points beyond?
What is Longhorns.
500
A district of a town in Spain and Spanish speaking countries.
What is a barnos.
500
Had to pay $10 registration fee an intricate could file for a homestead.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Led the seventh Calvary and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Who is George A. Custer.
500
What battle did George A. Custer die in?
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn.
500
What trail ran from San Antonio, Texas to Kansas City, Missouri?
What is the Shawnee Trail.