Period 6 Vocabulary Concepts

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Boom Town

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A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.

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Longhorn cattle

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A breed of cattle known for their characteristic horns, which can extend to over 100 inches tip to tip for cows and bulls. They are descendants of the first cattle introduced in the New World by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish colonists.

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Barbed Wire

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A type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is placed atop walls surrounding secured property.

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Deflation

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A decrease in the general price level of goods and services. It occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0%.

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Middlemen

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A person who buys goods from producers and sells them to retailers or consumers.

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Assimilation (Native Americans)

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A series of efforts by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European-American culture.

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Deforestation

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The action of clearing a wide area of trees.

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New South

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After the Civil War, reformers in the South made efforts toward modernization of society and attitudes, integrating more fully with the United States, and rejecting the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the antebellum period.

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Jim Crow Laws

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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

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Disenfranchisement

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The state of being deprived of the right to vote.