Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads Vocabulary

Vaquero

• a cowboy, cattle driver

• Mexican or Tejano owner of a ranch

Chuck Wagon

• area of land where the indians were forced to live

• a wagon that carries cooking equipment and food for the cowhands on the drive

Reservation

• Mexican or Tejano owner of a ranch

• area of land where the indians were forced to live

Windmill

• device that uses wind power to pump water

• increase in number of people who inhabit a territory or state

Industrialization

• process society transforms from ag society into manufacturing goods

• increase in number of people who inhabit a territory or state

Population Growth

• increse in number of people who inhabit a territory, state, or country

• Americans moving West across the nation to claim land

Westward Expansion

• Americans moving west across the nation to claim land for the United States

• Area of land where the indians were forced to live

Quanah Parker

• The last and final stand for the Comanche in Texas.

• Last Chief of Comanches who never lost a battle to the white manor. He surrendered and helped his people.

Tenant Farming

• Ag system where farmer rents land and house from landowner

• system of af where farmer borrows house and land from landowner

Sharecropping

• system where farmer borrows land and houe from landowner and has no control over crop

• cattle rustlers and other ranchers battling farmers over an open range