Westward Expansion Vocabulary

2. Patrons of Husbandry—a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century.
4. This battle ended the Indian Wars on the Great Plains.
9. Mining that uses water under high pressure to blast away gravel and dirt to expose the mineral underneath.
10. Monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is defined in terms of a set amount of gold.
12. U.S. law enacted in 1862 that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years; a law whose passage led to record numbers of U.S. settlers claiming
13. A minority group’s adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture.
15. Mining that requires cutting deep shafts in solid rock to extract the ore.
16. Vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America, from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
17. The use of both gold and silver as a basis for a national monetary system.
18. Groups of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues.

1. Moving of cattle over trails to a shipping center.
3. Late-19th-century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers.
5. Searching for gold by using pans or other devices to wash gold nuggets out of loose rock
6. This treaty was supposed to stop Native attacks and settlers moving in but didn’t.
7. A rich Nevada gold and silver mine.
8. A law, enacted in 1887, that was intended to “Americanize” Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners.
11. African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years.
14. Spanish had brought this type of cattle that did well on the Great Plains.