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| subsidy | money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public |
| transcontinental | going across a continent |
| time zone | a geographic region in which the same standard time is used |
| long drive | a trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets |
| vaquero | a cowboy, particularly a Mexican cowboy |
| homestead | to earn ownership of land by living on it |
| sodbuster | name given to Great Plains farmers |
| dry farming | a farming method that depends on plowing after every rain to trap moisture in the soil |
| nomadic | moving from place to place in a fixed pattern |
| reservation | an area of land set aside for use by a group |
| treaty | a formal agreement between two or more groups of people in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other relationships |
| National Grange | network of local farmers' groups |
| cooperative | cash-only store where farmers bought from each other |
| populism | an appeal to the common people |
| Farmers' Alliances | network of local farmers' groups, located primarily in West & South |
