| A | B |
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| Vigilance Committee | a group of ordinary citizens formed by local law enforcement officers whose goal is to find criminals and bring them to justice |
| Hydraulic Mining | a method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and exposing the minerals beneath the surface |
| Open Range | vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government |
| Hacienda | a huge ranch |
| Barrios | Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in a town or city |
| Mining | Played a key role in the settling of the West |
| Built to connect the East to the West | Railroads |
| Post Civil-War | America becomes Industrial |
| 1859: Henry Comstock claimed land to be rich and this city was created | Virginia City, Nevada |
| Mining and striking it reach created a massive influx of people and towns were called | Boomtowns |
| This metal was found in the Dakota territory and Montana | Copper |
| What tools were used for early mining | Picks/Shovels and Pans |
| river water that ran over a trench which had bars and screens that would trap the metals and let the lighter dirt wash away was called? | Sluice mining |
| high pressure water was used to wash away dirt, gravel and rock from hillsides and mountains. | Hydraulic mining |
| The __________brought ranchers west to herd cattle | Great Plains |
| Railroads helped move _____to market quicker | Cattle |
| These fences blocked the cattle trails. | Barbed Wire Fencing |
| Residents of the region could keep property and become American citizens due to the Treaty of | Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| The California “Gold Rush” changed the population of California in less than | 2 years |
| Hispanic New Mexican group called themselves themselves | Las Gorras Blancas |
| Mexican immigrants worked mainly in | Agriculture and Railroads |
