Texas History - Unit 7 Vocabulary Practice

Match the following

• Activities that relate to the buying and selling of goods and services

• Frontier

• A group of people who have been given the official job of finding information about something

• Hub

• A distant area where few people live

• Barbed Wire

• The central and most active part or place

• Commission

• Wire that has sharp points and that is often used for fences

• Commerce

Match the following

• Going across a continent

• Regulate

• A large group of frightened or excited animals run together in an uncontrolled way to escape danger

• Urban

• To bring under the control of something

• Industry

• A group of businesses that provide a product or service

• Transcontinental

• Relating to cities and the people who live in them

• Stampede

Wire that has sharp points and that is often used for fences

• Barbed Wire

• Razor Wire

• Telephone Wire

• Telegraph Wire

Activities that relate to the buying and selling of goods and services

• Budget

• Trade

• Commerce

• Economics

A group of people who have been given the official job of finding information about something

• FBI / CIA

• Courtroom

• Jury

• Commission

A distant area where few people live

• Land

• Frontier

• Country

• Desert

Going across a continent

• Transatlantic

• Golbal

• Transcontinental

• Canal

A large group of frightened or excited animals run together in a wild, uncontrolled way to escape something

• Chase

• Running

• Tackle

• Stampede

Relating to cities and the people who live in them

• Urban

• Rural

• Forest

• Mountains

A group of businesses that provide a product or service

• Goods

• Property

• Industry

• Innovation