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21 Cards in this Set
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Vigilance Committee |
Group of ordinary citizens who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice |
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hydraulic mining |
method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and exposing the minerals beneath the surface |
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Extract |
to remove by force |
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adapt |
to change in order to meet the demands of a certain environment or cirumstance |
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Open range |
vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government |
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Prior |
before or previous |
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Hacienda |
a huge ranch |
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barrios |
Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in a town or city |
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prospecitve |
to be likely to, or have intentions to, perform an act |
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Homestead |
a piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it |
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dry farming |
a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture |
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Sodbuster |
a name given to Great Plains farmers |
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innovation |
a new idea or method |
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bonanza farm |
a large, high quality profitable wheat farm |
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nomad |
a person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food |
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relocate |
to move to a new place |
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annuity |
money paid by contract at regular intervals |
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ensure |
to guarantee or make certain |
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approximately |
an estimate of a figure that is close to the actual figure |
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assimilate |
to absorb a group into the culture of another population |
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allotment |
a plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use |
