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The farmer paid his rent with a share of the crop
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Sharecropping
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cowboys at the back of the herd
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drag
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The 2 biggest ranches in Texas
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XIT RanchKing Ranch
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The Panic of 1873 started when
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banks made bad loans went out of business
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Towns tended to grow up near the
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railroads
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cowboys at the sides of the herd
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flankers
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The number one meat-packing center in Texas?
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Fort Worth
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Texas coal mining town?
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Thurber
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What ended the open range?
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barbed wire
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What bug ate the cotton plants?
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boll weevil
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What encouraged farming in the 1800s?
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steel plow
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What pumped water up from underground?
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windmill
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1 industry in Texas in the late 1800s?
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lumber
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The cattle drives drove the cattle to
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the railroads
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After the Civil War, many freedmen became
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sharecroppers
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main crop in Texas in the 1800s?
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cotton
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The Chisholm Trail went to
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Abilene , Kansas
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wagon that carried the cooking supplies on a
trail drive?
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chuck wagon
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cattle are herded together branded
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at the roundup before the cattle drive
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The coal industry in Texas grew when
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trains began to use coal for fuel
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the whole town was owned by the company
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company town
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workers in a company town were paid in
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scrip
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In the late 1800s people began to move from
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the farms to the city
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What 2 towns grew as lumber towns?
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Beaumont Orange
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What town grew because it was a railroad crossing?
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Dallas
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What 2 towns grew as seaports?
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Galveston Houston
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How many days a week would people work in the
factories?
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6 days a week
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factory workers organized_?_ to get better
working conditions
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labor unions
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How many hours a day did factory workers work?
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12 hours a day
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to get what they wanted , labor unions would
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go on strike
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cowboys who took care of the horses on a trail
drive?
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wranglers
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farmers who grew just enough food to survive?
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subsistence farming
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What allowed beef to be shipped far away without
spoiling?
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refrigerated railroad car
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a cattle thief
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rustler
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warehouse where beef is prepared?
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packinghouse
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a mark burned on the hide of cattle?
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brand
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a pen where cattle are kept before shipping or
butchering
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stockyard
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the westward trail went to
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Dodge City, Kansas
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cowboys who rode by the lead cattle?
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pointers
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