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History 8/24
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10th Grade
08/24/2016

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Vigilance Committee
Definition
group of ordinary citizens to find citizens to find criminals and bring them to justice.
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Hydrolic minings
Definition
Method of mining by wich water is sprayed at very high pressure against a hill or mountain washing away large quanities of dirt, gravel, and rock.
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Open range
Definition
Vast amounts of grasslands owened by the federal government.
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hacienda
Definition
a large ranch
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Barrios
Definition
Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city
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Homestead
Definition
A piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it a cultivating it.
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dry farming
Definition
A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted in the ground where there is ome moisture.
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sod buster
Definition
A name given to Great Plains farmers.
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Bonanza farm

 

Definition
A large, highly profitable wheat farm.
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Nomad
Definition
A person that continually moves from place to place usually in search of food.
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Annuity

 

Definition
Money paid by contract at regular intervals.
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Assimilate
Definition
To absorb a group into the culture of another population.
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allotment

 

Definition
A plot of land assignedto an individual or a family for specified time.
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