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Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the rocky mountains and other western regions of the united states.
what is Mountain men
A long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or better grazing lands.
what is Cattle drive
African American soldiers who served in the cavalry during the west.
what is Buffalo soldiers
A method of farming used by plains farmers in the 1890 that shifted focus from water dependent farming to more hardy crops.
what is Dry farming
An undeveloped area.
what is Frontier
A system of messengers that carried mail between relay stations on a route 2,000 miles long in 1860 and 1861.
what is Pony Express
To give up traditional ways in favor of mainstream practices.
what is Assimilate
The name given to plains farmers who worked hard to break up the regions saud.
what is Sodbusters
Nevad gold and silver mine discovered by henry clay in 1859
what is Comstock lode
A railroad system that crossed the continental US construction began in 1863.
what is Transcontinental Railroad
A law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government owned land to small farmers.
what is Homestead act
A prominent American lawyer, orator, and politician.
what is William J Bryan
A western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disappeared when the boom ended.
what is Boomtowns
The system set up by the railroad companies that divided the country into four time zones.
what is Standard time
A federal law passed by congress that gave land to western states to encourage them to build colleges.
what is Morrill act
A decree in money supply and overall prices.
what is Deflation
An area of the great plains on which many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800.
what is Cattle Kingdom
Federal land set aside for American Indians.
what is Reservations
African Americans who settled western lads in the late 1800.
what is Exodusters
A political party formed in 1892 that supported free coinage of silver work reforms immigration restrictions and government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone systems.
what is Populist Party