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| New technique for growing crops in arid climates |
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| A plot of land assigned to a person or family for cultivation |
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| the major cattle route to Abilene. |
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| One of the most important inventions of the 19th century. |
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| A tract of public land available for settlement. |
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| attempt to “Americanize” Native Americans |
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| annual government payments to reservation dwellers |
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| Native American tradition that the US government tried to ban |
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| name given to the process of moving cattle over a distance. |
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| volunteers that acted as a makeshift law enforcement |
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| get 160 acres free if you live on it for five years |
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| financed by outside capital |
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| to absorb into another culture |
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| people that lived off the land and moved with the buffalo |
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| the old school way of extracting shallow deposits |
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- proposed creation of two large reservations- bad idea.
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| name for early settler in the mid-West |
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| a stray calf with no identifying markings |
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| vast grassland owned by the government |
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| blasting rock away to get deep beneath the surface |
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