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Cotton, Cattle and Railroads

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Commercial Agriculture   producing crops for sale  
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Expansion   the act or process of expanding; to extend  
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Immigrant   a person who comes to a country to settle  
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sharecropper   a farmer who is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop  
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subsistence agriculture   producing almost all the goods needed by the farm family, usually with a little extra to sale  
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open range   public land that could be used by anyone  
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vaquero   cowhand  
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felony   a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death  
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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  
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tenant farming   a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent  
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