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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Statehood
Civil War
Turn of Cent
100
money owed to another
What is a debt?
100
land set aside by the government for Native Americans
What is a reservation?
100
countries disagreed about boundaries due to Texas statehood
What is troubles w/Mexico?
100
most slaves lived on
What is a plantation?
100
cowhands drove cattle, cook prepared meals, trail boss rode ahead to scout, waddies rode around herd to round up runaway steer
What is Texas Cattle Drive?
200
slavery allowed in the South
What is slave state?
200
grew quickly when oil was discovered nearby
What is boomtown?
200
gave the US a vast area of land
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
cash crop
What is cotton?
200
invented barbed wire
Who is Joseph Glidden?
300
crop raised to sell to others
What is a cash crop?
300
person who organizes and runs a business
What is entrepreneurs?
300
borrowed money to fight Mexico, protect citizens, Indian attacks
What are results of Texas independence?
300
special day for freedom in Texas
What is Juneteenth?
300
allowed transport of cattle, people, mail and new businesses
What is Railroad Industry?
400
change to a constitution
What is amendment?
400
land that is given to another country
What is cession?
400
Stephen F. Austin ten men to protect his settlement form Indian attack
What is Texas Rangers?
400
period after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
400
well gused for nine days before workers could put a cap on it
What is Spindletop?
500
separation of people into groups based on race or culture
What is segregation?
500
belief the US was meant to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
people who wanted to end slavery and also against statehood
What is an Abolitionists?
500
nickname given by Indians to African Americans...they saw same fighting spirit in the soldiers that they saw in the buffalo
Who are buffalo soldiers?
500
discovered oil near Beaumont
Who is Patillo Higgins?