gold rush

2. a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.
4. Chief of Oregon's Nez Perce Indians
7. to conserve moisture by reducing or even eliminating runoff and evaporation
10. to discourage the plowing up of erosion-prone grasslands for use as cropland.
11. citizens that called themselves the law
13. an agricultural region in which more land is devoted to the production of wheat than to any other one crop
14. a process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
17. a vast prairie region in the west
18. a U.S. Army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor who help build the train.
19. a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place

1. very large farms established in the western United States
3. a Canadian miner that found silver.
5. cowboys killed buffalos so we can build railroads
6. blasting water mixed with chemicals to find gold
8. any adult citizen, could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
9. a dwelling with its land occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law
12. Peace Commission a group formed by an act of Congress on July 20, 1867 to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes.
15. a piece of land deeded by the government to a North American Indian, as part of the division of tribally held land.
16. a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period,