vocab
A ____________ was a group of ordinary citizens who organized to track down and punish wrongdoers in the West.
Vigilance Committee
The ____________ was vast, unfenced grassland where ranchers could graze cattle freely.
Open Range
What discovery sparked a mining boom in Nevada during the 1850s?
Comstock Lode (silver)
in the 1880s, The USA became a leading exporter in what?
Wheat
Many Native Americans were forced to relocate to _______?
Reservations
The ____________ Act of 1862 provided settlers with 160 acres of public land if they agreed to farm and improve it
Homestead
A large Spanish-owned estate or ranch in the Southwest was called a ____________
Hacienda
Why did the “open range” system end?
Barbed wire and overgrazing
By the 1900s ?/3 of farmers lost their land and became tenant farmers?
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The Dakota Sioux Uprising was ______
The Dakota were promised Annuities to move to a reservation but never received them so they killed 100s of white settlers.
In California and Nevada, miners used ____________, a technique that used high-pressure water to wash away soil and expose minerals.
Hydraulic Mining
Many Mexican Americans lived in urban neighborhoods known as ____________, often centered around culture and community.
Barrios
The long cattle drives brought herds north to railroads in:
Kansas railheads
What is a tenant farmer?
Describe the Sand Creek Massacre
after native Americans rebelled against unfair conditions and broken treaties, they agreed to a surrender in exchange for supplies. While negioating, their camp was attacked and 69-600 native women, children, and men were slaughtered.
Under the Dawes Act, Native Americans received an ____________, or parcel of land, in an effort to encourage farming and private property ownership.
Allotment
A ____________ was the nickname for a Great Plains farmer who plowed the tough sod to grow crops.
Sodbuster
Many farmers in the mid west lost their farms to ________?
drought and over use
In April 1889, The USA opened one last large territory homestead called what?(Hint: OU s football name is based off this)
The Oklahoma landrush
The government wanted peace, so they wanted Native Americans to assimilate. The government created ________ _________ To force Native children to receive White American names, learn English, and become Christians.
Boarding Schools
On the dry Great Plains, farmers developed ____________, a method of planting seeds deep in the ground to reach moisture.
Dry Farming
To ____________ means to absorb a minority group into the culture of a larger group, often through education and lifestyle changes.
Assimilate
lARGE LANDOWNERS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE LARGE FARMS CALLED______?
Bonanza farms
The Oklahoma Land Rush marked the _______ of the frontier?
closing
The _________ _____ divided reservations into allotments to help Natives assimilate into capitalism and get away from communalism.
Dawes Act