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11 Cards in this Set
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What is a rich deposit of ore, or metal, called.
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Lode
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What was the name given to a deserted mining town
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Gost Town
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The railroad that was built to connect the eastern part of the US to the western was called the ________________.
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Transcontinental Railroad
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An agreement between groups of people or nations is known as a ______________.
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Treaty
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Land that the government set up to be protected for the Indians.
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Reservation
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The trip ranchers took in the spring to move cattle north to the railroad was the _____ ______.
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Long Drive
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The name of the Mexican cowboy, from who the American cowboy got many of its customs.
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Vaquero
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The nickname for the open grasslands of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.
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Open Range
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People who received free land from the government from the Homestead Act were called ____________.
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Homesteaders
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One of the inventions by the settlers which helped to contain cattle in a field.
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Barbed Wire
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A farming technique farmers adopted by digging small trenches near the base of the crops to help absorb water.
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Dry Farming
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