Unit 2 : Lesson 1 - Key Terms

A farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in cash or as a share of the crop

• tenant farmer

• boomtown

• assimilate

• bonanza farms

a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population

• tenant farmer

• boomtown

• assimilate

• bonanza farms

a large, highly profitable wheat farm

• tenant farmer

• boomtown

• assimilate

• bonanza farms

people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849

• forty-niners

• homestead

• reservation

• open range

vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government

• forty-niners

• homestead

• reservation

• open range

a piece of U.S. public land acquired by living on it and cultivating it

• forty-niners

• homestead

• reservation

• open range

a dance that the Native Americans believed would make white settlers leave and restore the buffalo to the Plains

• Ghost Dance

• Americanization

• assimilate

• reservation

process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics

• Ghost Dance

• Americanization

• assimilate

• reservation

to absorb a group into the culture of another population

• Ghost Dance

• Americanization

• assimilate

• reservation

Federal land set aside for Native Americans

• Ghost Dance

• Americanization

• hydraulic mining

• reservation