Unit 4 Chapter 11 Flashcards
Henry Comstock
A Canadian miner who founded the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada.
Boomtown
Mining camps that gained sudden and rapid population, with an economic growth.
Vigilance Committee
A group of citizens that use violence to manage law and order.
Hydraulic Mining
Using a powerful jet of water to dislodge minerals.
Open Range
The free grazing of cattle on unfenced land.
Long Drive
Large herds of longhorn cattle roaming freely throughout the South (Texas).
Hacienda
A large landed estate.
Barrios
Spanish neighborhood.
Great Plains
A broad expanse of flat land in North America.
Stephen Long
U.S. army explorer, topographical engineer, and railway engineer.
Homestead Act
Encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a small registration fee of $10.
Homestead Dry Farming
Planting seeds in the ground where there’s enough moisture for them to grow.
Sodbuster
A farmer or farm worker who plows the land.
Wheat Belt
Part of the North American Great Plains where wheat is the dominant crop.
Bonanza Farms
Large, commercial farming enterprises that grew thousands of acres of wheat.
Nomad
A person who has no permanent home and moves place to place. They are usually in search of food/thriving land.
Annuity
Annual payments from the government.
Sand Creek Massacre
Col Chivington arrived at fort Lyon and said that the Cheyenne had killed settlers and there could be no peace.
What happened is unclear whether Chivington waved a false flag of truce or caught them totally unaware.
After two days of fighting, between 69-600 Native Americans were brutally murdered including women and children.
Indian Peace Commission
Established by congress which proposed creating two large reservations on the plains, one for the Sioux and another for NA of the southern plains.
George A. Custer
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Chief Joseph
A leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe.
Assimilate
A solution to be absorbed into American society as landowners and citizens.
Allotment
Smaller reservations that have been divided.
Dawes Act
Allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.
