| A | B |
|---|
| breadbasket | nickname of the Great Plains |
| Homestead Act | law that gave 160 acres of the Great Plains to anyone who whould live on it for 5 years |
| sod | material that people on the Plains built houses of |
| problems of living on the Plains | 1-hot in summer 2-cold in winter 3-fire 4-insects |
| changes that made life on the Plains easier | 1-windmills 2-steel plows to cut through tough sod |
| invented a strong plow | James Oliver |
| lage farms on the Plains that were started by companies | bonanza farms |
| organization of farmers | National Grange |
| farm reformer from GA that was elected to Congress | Tom Watson |
| political party formed to give farmers a voice in politics | Polulist Party |
| built cattle pens near the railroad in Abilene, Texas | James McCoy |
| cities along the railroad where stockyards were built | "cow towns" |
| how ranchers got cattle to the cow towns | cattle drives |
| cattle trail that started in south Texas and went to Abilene | Chisholm Trail |
| caused the price of food to drop | farmers were producing too much food |
| city where cows were processed before the meat was shipped to eastern cities | Chicago |
| free grazing land | open range |
| started a huge Texas ranch | Richard King |
| job that women did on a ranch | cooked for cowhands and did chores |
| jobs that children did on a ranch | care for horses and herd cattle |
| burning a mark onto calves so you could tell who they belonged to | branding |
| vaqueros | Mexican cowboys |
| problems of ranching | 1-blizzards 2-dry summers 3-fighting with farmers |
| invented barbed wire | Joseph Glidden |
| hardships of cowboys | 1-bad weather 2-hard work 3-away from family |
