Unit 8 Vocabulary- Cotton, Cattle, & Railroads

the practice of growing enough crops to provide for one’s family group

• subsistence farming

• barbed wire

• drovers

• vaqueros

a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee

• vaqueros

• branding

• commodity

• textiles

wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction

• barbed wire

• windmill

• cowhands

• stockyards

one who drives cattle or sheep

• rustlers

• cowhands

• drovers

• vaqueros

the spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth

• commercial agriculture

• settlement patterns

• stampede

• dry farming

Changing your culture and lifestyle to adapt to another culture and lifestyle

• assimilation

• open range

• innovation

• branding

a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, or other animals

• stampede

• ranches

• irrigation

• stockyards

gather together and confine (a group of people or things); put or keep (livestock) in a corral.

• open range

• textiles

• isolate

• corralled

Former enslaved soldiers (African Americans) who helped protect the Texas frontier from Natives after the Civil War

• buffalo soldier

• cowhands

• wrangler

• rustlers

the practice of growing surplus crops to sell for profit

• ranches

• subsistence farming

• commercial agriculture

• stockyards