KEYWORDS: INHABITANTS AND SETTLERS 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryThe American West 1840-1895GCSEEdexcel Created by: IzzyRJCreated on: 18-01-16 20:50 Claim An amount of land registered by a homesteader or miner for his own use 1 of 26 Claim-jumping Stealing another person's claim to prospect for gold in a specific place 2 of 26 Counting Coup The act of touching an enemy 3 of 26 Danites Mormon secret police 4 of 26 Dry Farming A technique whereby farmers ploughed their land whenever it rained or snowed, thus creating a layer of dust that trapped the moisture underneath 5 of 26 Federal Relating to a government that makes laws for whole of the United States 6 of 26 Homesteader A person who settled on the Great Plains to farm the land 7 of 26 Jerky Strips of dried buffalo meat 8 of 26 Manifest Destiny The belief that white Americans should populate the United States from east to west coast 9 of 26 Medicine Man Indian holy man 10 of 26 Mountain Man A man who was a hunter, trapper and tracker in the Rocky Mountains 11 of 26 Pemmican Buffalo meat that has been pounded to a pulp, mixed with berries, poured into a skin container and sealed with fat 12 of 26 Polygamy Having more than one wife at the same time 13 of 26 Primary Settlement The first, most basic settlement 14 of 26 Road Agent Highwayman 15 of 26 Sacred Land Holy land 16 of 26 Scalping Cutting away the hair and scalp of a defeated enemy as a trophy of battle 17 of 26 Sod House Houses built from sods of earth by homesteaders 18 of 26 Sod-buster Another name for a homesteader 19 of 26 Speculator A person who bought land and sold it on for a higher price 20 of 26 Sweat Lodge A tipi where air was heated inside and people go to sweat as part of a purification ritual 21 of 26 Tipi The tent-like home of an Indian family 22 of 26 Trading Station The place where mountain men, Indians and traders met to buy and sell furs, skins and other goods 23 of 26 Travois Framework harnessed to a horse on which Plains Indians transported their belongings 24 of 26 Vigilante A member of a community that took the law into their own hands 25 of 26 Vision A person or object seen in a dream or a trance 26 of 26
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