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Vocabulary

Vocabulary. Unit Nine: Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads. expansion. the act or process of expanding; the quality or state of being expanded; to extend. buffalo guns. powerful rifles with telescopes used by hunters to kill buffalo. extermination. complete and total destruction. brands.

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Vocabulary

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  1. Vocabulary Unit Nine: Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads

  2. expansion the act or process of expanding; the quality or state of being expanded; to extend

  3. buffalo guns powerful rifles with telescopes used by hunters to kill buffalo

  4. extermination complete and total destruction

  5. brands identification marks on livestock made by burning with a hot iron

  6. cattle drives the herding of large groups of cattle from the open range to market for sale

  7. rustlers cattle thieves

  8. longhorn breed of cattle that developed as Spanish breeds mixed with English cattle brought by U.S. settlers

  9. Texas fever disease that plagued cattle, to which longhorns were resistant

  10. stockyards holding pens for livestock

  11. open range unfenced land

  12. wrangler one who herds or cares for livestock on the range

  13. windmills devices using wind power to pump water from underground to the surface

  14. barbed wire fencing designed with sharp points

  15. range wars occasionally violent disputes caused by the fencing of the open range

  16. transcontinental railroad railroad that runs across the continent

  17. junctions meeting places of two or more lines of railroad

  18. immigrant a person who comes to a country to settle

  19. commercial agriculture producing crops for sale instead of for use by a family

  20. progress movement toward a goal; advance development or growth; steady improvement, as a society or civilization; proceed

  21. reform to put or change into an improved form or condition; to amend or improve by change or form or removal of faults or abuses; to put an end to by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action

  22. populism a political belief that works to reduce the influence of big business on government

  23. progressivism a reform movement in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s with a goal of improving society

  24. suffrage voting rights

  25. platform statement of political goals

  26. monopoly sole economic control of a field of business

  27. temperance movement a social reform effort that encouraged people to drink less alcohol

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