Chapter 5 Flashcards
charter
a document granting special rights to a people or a group
monopoly
a situation where a company has total control of an industry or supply of goods
obligated
required to do something
orator
someone who gives speeches, especially someone who is very good at it
quarantine
to separate from others, especially in the case of illness
subsidy
financial assistance given by the government in support of a project or business
mechanize
to change from work done by humans or animals to work done by machines
plat
to map the actual or planned features of a place such as streets and building lots
squatter
a person who occupies land or property they do not own
tenant
a farmer who rents a plot of land and a house from a landowner
thresh
to separate the grain from a harvested plant by striking it with a hand tool or using a machine
yield
an amount produced
chain migration
migration to a place that is caused by the stories of people who have already migrated there
exodus
a mass migration of people, often of one religious or thence group
famine
an extreme food shortage where many people do not have enough to eat
pacifist
a person who believes that war and violence are wrong, and who refuses to participate in either
cowtowns
Cowboys saw cowtown as places to seek refuge from life on the trail. Businesses offered services and goods as cowboys passed through. Cowtowns were not always permanent. Shifts in trails often led to the decline of a cowtown, unlike railroad towns with regular work.
land grants
Land grants were argued to have created an unfair advantage for railroad companies. They made it possible to create monopolies, which dominated the railroad industry and other industries reliant upon rail. Others views the land grants are financial assistance.
locusts
destroyed summer crops, making winter wheat popular
Fred Harvey
built a successful restaurant chain along the railroad
Medicine Lodge River
the location with no American settlements or army forts nearby, perfect for peace negotiations between the Native Americans and the United States government agents
General Hancock
assumed the Native Americans were unwilling to negotiate a peace settlement and set fire to their villages
