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Unit 9
Cotton, Cattle and Railroads
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |