Age of Oil Vocab

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Industrialization

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Growth of factories and manufactured goods

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Nickname for rapidly created towns during Texas oil rush?

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boom towns

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"Buffalo Soldiers" were African American soldiers nicknamed by whom?

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Native American Tribes

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Country that brought cattle to Texas and the U.S.

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Spain

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Son of an American woman captured by the Comanches and last Chief.

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Quanah Parker

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Invention to keep cattle in one area:

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barbed wire

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A hired hand tending cattle on horseback.

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Cowboy

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Barbed wire closed off the western frontier, leading to...

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Range Wars

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First Native Governor of Texas who reformed railroads.

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James Hogg

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Inventions that transformed West Texas post-Civil War and spurred settlement:

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Windmills, barbed wire, and railroads