Unit 8 Vocabulary - Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads

What invention allowed people to pull water out of underground aquifers to irrigate farmland.

• Windmill

• Barbwire

• Spindletop

• Aquifer

Wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences.

• Windmill

• Ranches

• Barbed Wire

• Textiles

Who was the Comanche Chief who had a white mother and a Comanche father. Very successful warrior chief and later became a leader in cooperating with the United States.

• Comanches

• Quanah Parker

• Cowboys

• Sam Houston

What is a ranch?

• A large farm for raising horses, beef cattle, or sheep.

• A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.

• A sudden rush of animals or people, usually caused by fear.

• A way of supplying water to an area of land.

An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something is known as...

• Technology

• Stampede

• Innovation

• Irrigation

The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes is known as...

• Windmill

• Innovation

• Barbed Wire

• Technology

A sudden rush of animals or people, usually caused by fear is known as...

• Stampede

• Ranch

• Cowboys

• Textiles

A type of cloth or woven fabric

• Irrigation

• Barbed Wire

• Ranches

• Textiles

A way of supplying water to an area of land.

• Treaty

• Comanche

• Irrigation

• Cowboy

A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.

• Discussion

• Treaty

• Promise

• Trust