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New technique for growing crops in arid climates
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Dry Farming
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2.
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A plot of land to an individual or family for cultivation
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Allotment
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The major cattle route to Abilene
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Chisholm Trail
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One of the most important inventions of the 19th century
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Barbed wire
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A tract of public land available for settlement
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Homestead
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AKA the "bread basket of America"
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Great Plains
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7.
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Attempt to "americanize" Native Americans
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Dawes Act
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8.
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Annual goverment payments to reservation dwellers
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Annuities-
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Native American tradition that US gov't tried to ban
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Ghost Dance-
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10.
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Volunteers that acted as makeshift law enforvement
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Vigilance Committee
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Get 160 acres free if you live on it for 5 years
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Homestead Act-
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Name given to the process of moving cattle
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Long drive
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Early type of commercial farming financed by outside capital
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Bonanza farms
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14.
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To absorb into another culture
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Assimilate
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People that lived off the land and moved with the buffalo
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Nomad
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The old school way of extracting shallow deposits
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Placer mining
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Proposed creation of two large reservations
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Indian Peace Commission
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18.
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Name for early settlernin the mid-west
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Sodbuster-
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19.
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a stray calf with no identifying markings
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Maverick
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20.
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Vast areas of grassland owned by federal goverment
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Open Range
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21.
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Blasting rock away to get deep beneath the surface
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Quartz mining
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