Chapter 19 Cattle, Cotton, Railroad

ranchero

• a Spanish word for Rancher

• A type of Mexican Food

• A type of Mexican Dance

• A Spanish word for Ranch Dressing

_______________is referred to as public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.

a state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pest

• provision

• quarantine

• prospect

• detention

felony

• money charged in exchange for service or permission to take an action

• something that has an influence on an outcome

• a serious crime for which punishment may be imprisonment or death

• the front lines, where combat between opposing armies takes place

syndicate

• a course of action used to achieve a goal

• a tax on imported goods

• a custom or habit

• a group of investors who join together to fun a business

MUSTANG

• the small hardy horse of the West, descended from the horses brought by the Spanish

• A Ford

• to find a way to pass over along a body of water

• a religious settlement

promote

• to encourage people to take part in an activity

• shelter

• to enlist people in the armed services

• to forbid or prevent

left unplanted for one or more growing season

• fallow

• factor

• federalist

• fee

a farmer who, in exchange for labor, is provide with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the vale of the crop

• secure

• shares

• sharecropper

• solar farming

The method used to water crops in dry areas

• irrigation

• federalization

• photosynthesis

• crop rotation