Chapter 13 Vocab

Stretching across a continent

• Transcontinental

• Vigilantism

• Sooners

• Land grant

1. Law enforcement or justice enacted without any legal authority

• Vigilantism

• Pinkerton

• Sodbusters

• Homestead Act

1. Detective agency that guarded factories during labor disputes

• Pinkerton

• Homestead Act

• Boomers

• Sooners

Style of fighting characterized by informal sneak attacks

• Guerilla warfare

• Vigilantism

• Sodbusters

• Individualism

Term used for pioneers who settled in Oklahoma the day it became available for settlement

• Boomers

• Sooners

• Sodbusters

• Pinkerton

Term used for pioneers who settled in Oklahoma days before it became available for settlement

• Boomers

• Sooners

• Sodbusters

• Pinkerton

Permission granted to a group (usually by a government) to use a particular parcel of land

• Land grant

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental

• Individualism

Farmers who plowed up hard prairie grasslands

• Sodbusters

• Pinkerton

• Boomers

• Sooners

1. Law giving western land to settlers who promised to develop it

• Homestead Act

• Boomers

• Individualism

• Land grant

The idea that people should be self-reliant

• Individualism

• Vigilantism

• Sooners

• Homestead Act