Ch3 Vocabulary

Subsidy

• Total amount

• To remove or take out with force

• money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public

• going across a continent

Extract

• Total amount

• To remove or take out with force

• money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public

• going across a continent

Sum

• Total amount

• To remove or take out with force

• money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public

• going across a continent

Transcontinental

• Total amount

• To remove or take out with force

• money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public

• going across a continent

Long drive

• A geographic region in which the same standard time is used

• A trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets

• A cowhand of Hispanic origin

• To earn ownership of land by living on it

Vaquero

• A geographic region in which the same standard time is used

• A trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets

• A cowhand of Hispanic origin

• To earn ownership of land by living on it

Time Zone

• A geographic region in which the same standard time is used

• A trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets

• A cowhand of Hispanic origin

• To earn ownership of land by living on it

Homestead

• A geographic region in which the same standard time is used

• A trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets

• A cowhand of Hispanic origin

• To earn ownership of land by living on it

Nomadic

• Name given to early Great Plains farmers

• A farming method that depends on plowing after every rain and trapping moisture in the soil in dry, non-irrigated land

• Moving from place to place in a fixed pattern

• An area of land set aside for use by a group

Reservation

• Name given to early Great Plains farmers

• A farming method that depends on plowing after every rain and trapping moisture in the soil in dry, non-irrigated land

• Moving from place to place in a fixed pattern

• An area of land set aside for use by a group