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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bond | certificateissued by a goverment or company promising to pay back a borrowed sum with interest. |
| Credit | an agreement in which a buyer is allowed to pay over aa period of time. |
| Commercial Farming | producing crops for sale. |
| Subsistence Fariming | producing enough crops for the farming family to srvive with very little money left over. |
| Barter | to trade one product or service for another. |
| Sharecropper | a tenant farmer who receives a share ot the value of the crop. |
| Landlord | the owner of property that is leased or rented to another. |
| Mortage | to give a lender legal claim to property as security untila debt is paid. |
| Cycle of Poverty | getting deeper each year in debt. |
| Commerce | the buying and selling of goods for transport from place to place. |
| Panic of 1873 | a national economic depression due to banks losing money. |
| Blackland Prairie | became the main cotton growing region in Texas. |
| Robert Munger | made improvments to the cotton gin. |
| James S. Hogg | first Texas-born governor. |
| Manufacturing | making goods by hand or with machines for sale in large numbers. |
| Boll Weevil | an insect that infected cotton crops in Texas resulting in large amounts of reconstruction. |