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| vigilante | people who take the law into their own hands |
| subsidy | grant of money from the government to a person or a company for an action intended to benefit the public |
| transcontinental | extending across a continent |
| time zone | a geographical region within which the same standard of time is used |
| Long Drive | the herding of cattle for 1,000 miles or more to meet the railroad |
| vaquero | Hispanic ranch hand |
| homestead | to acquire a piece of U.S. public land by living on and cultivating it |
| sodbuster | a name given to the Plains farmer |
| dry farming | a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in ground where there is some moisture |
| nomadic | moving from place to place with no permanent home |
| reservation | an area of public lands set aside for Native Americans |
| National Grange | the first farmers organization in the United States |
| cooperative | store where farmers bought products from each other; an enterprise owned and operated by those who use its services |
| populism | appeal to the common people |
| Comstock Lode | one of the world's richest deposits of silver-bearing ore |
| Leland Stanford | governor of California |
| Homestead Act | law giving up to 160 acres of land to a settler who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years |
| Crazy Horse | a Sioux military leader |
| Sitting Bull | an important leader of the Lakota Sioux |
| Geronimo | an Apache leader |
| Dawes Act | called for the breakup of reservations and an end to identification with a tribal group |
| Wounded Knee | marked the end of armed conflict between the U.S. government and Native Americans |
| William Jennings Bryan | a candidate for president who supported free silver |
| William McKinley | a Republican of Ohio, who opposed free silver |
| sum | amount or total |
| extract | to remove, usually by force |
| locate | establish |
| factor | contributing circumstances |
| ensure | make certain |
| widespread | far-reaching |
| create | to form; to make |
| currency | metal coins and paper notes used as money |
