| A | B |
|---|
| Placer Mining | Prospectors used simple equipment like picks, shovels and pans to mine shallow deposits. |
| Quartz Mining | Corporations dug deep beneath the surface in search of minerals. |
| Vigilance Committees | Groups of citizens formed to track down and punish wrongdoers. |
| Henry Comstock | Staked a claim for a silver mine in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada. |
| Major Stephen Long | Explored the Great Plains and called it the “Great American Desert.” |
| Texas Longhorn | Breed of cattle that could survive the harsh climate of the plains. |
| Open Range | Vast areas of grassland owned by the government. |
| Barbed Wire | Cheapest way to fence off the Great Plains |
| Homestead Act | The federal governments plan to helped settle the Great Plains |
| Dry Farming | planting seeds deep in the ground where there is enough moisture for them to grow. |
| Sodbusters | Farmers who plowed the soil on the Great Plains |
| Bonanza farms | Larger than single family farms owned by corperations and covered up to 50,000 acres. |
