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Directions: Answer each of the following questions about the chapter with a complete sentence. Include the listed vocabulary words in your answer.

1. Explain how mining techniques sometimes damage the land. (hydraulic mining) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What role did the open range play in the development of the cattle industry? (open range, hacienda) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why were vigilance committees important to the boomtowns of the West? (vigilance committees) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. How did the government encourage the development of the Great Plains? (homestead, sodbuster) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How did dry farming encourage wheat production on the Great Plains? (dry farming, bonanza farming) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Directions: Use this graphic organizer to explain how the following factors contributed to the downfall of the nomadic way of life of the Native Americans of the plains.

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Academic VocabularyDirections: Use your textbook to find these academic vocabulary words for the chapter. Write the sentence in which each word is found (context). Then, write a definition of each term in your own words.

7. adapt Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

8. innovation Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

9. relocate Context __________________________________________

Definition _________________________________________

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