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Unit 9
Cotton, Cattle and Railroads
Term | Definition |
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Commercial Agriculture | producing crops for sale |
Expansion | the act or process of expanding; to extend |
Immigrant | a person who comes to a country to settle |
sharecropper | a farmer who is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop |
subsistence agriculture | producing almost all the goods needed by the farm family, usually with a little extra to sale |
open range | public land that could be used by anyone |
vaquero | cowhand |
felony | a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death |
dry farming | a method of farming that used a manner of plowing that left loose soil on top of the ground, which kept water in the ground by slowing evaporation |
tenant farming | a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent |