| A | B |
|---|
| vigilante | Ordinary people acting on their own to punish criminals |
| subsidy | financial aid and land grants from the government |
| transcontiental | spanning the contient |
| extracting | removing |
| sum | amount of... |
| Comstock Lode | One of the world's richest deposits of sliver near Nevada's Carson River |
| Leland Stanford | Governor of California who drove the final golden spike to join the two railroads |
| Long Drive | The herding of cattle 1,000 miles or more to meet the railroads |
| located | established |
| vaqueros | Hispanic ranch hands |
| factors | contributing circumstances |
| Homestead Act | 1862 law that give up to 160 acres of land to a settle who paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for five years |
| homestead | earn land ownership by settling on it |
| sodbusters | Plains farmers who used tools to deal with the tough sod of the Plains region |
| dry farming | planting seeds deep in moist ground |
| ensure | make certain |
| nomadic | Traveling vast distances following a main source of food |
| reservation | tracts of land set aside for Natives |
| Crazy Horse | A Sioux military leader |
| widespread | far-reaching |
| Sitting Bull | Important leader of the Lakota Sioux |
| Geronimo | Apache leader who fled to Mexico led raids in Arizona |
| Dawes Act | 1887 Congress aimed to break up tribal groups and distribute land to natives on reservation lands |
| Wounded Knee | Southwestern S. Dakota where 200 Sioux and 25 soldiers were killed, marked the end of armed conflict with the government and natives. |
| created | formed |
| National Grange | First farmers organization |
| cooperatives | stores where farmers bought products from each other |
| populism | appeal to the common people |
| currency | money system |
