Unit 7 Vocabulary Test

Devices using wind power to pump water from underground to the surface

• Barbed Wire
• Windmills

strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage

• Barbed Wire
• Windmills

movement of large herds of cows in order to sell for profit

• Urbanization
• Texas Cattle Drive

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

• Urbanization
• Texas Cattle Drive

area set aside as a place for Native Americans to live

• Reservations
• Open Range
• Transcontinental Railroads

unfenced public land that was used to raise cattle during this time period

• Reservations
• Open Range
• Transcontinental Railroads

a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West; opened new markets and helped spur the Industrial Revolution

• Reservations
• Open Range
• Transcontinental Railroads

1st big cattle drive from south Texas to Missouri used by the cattle trailing industry to deliver longhorns to the markets of the Midwest.

• Shawnee Trail
• Western Trail

Cattle trail that went across the open range to the west of settled territory and into Dodge City, Kansas.

• Shawnee Trail
• Western Trail