Unit 09 Vocab

2. The right to vote.
3. Barbed-wire fence dozens of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food.
4. A business or organization owned and operated by the people who work in it or who use its services.
6. A farmer who, in exchange for labor is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop.
11. Extending or going across the continent.
13. A legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property and pays back the money owed over a period of years.
15. The Spanish word for "rancher".
16. An African American soldier serving in the western United States after the Civil War.
18. A reform movement that tried to correct social and political problems.
19. Separated based on membership in a racial or ethnic group.

1. A ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses.
2. A group of investors who join together to fund a business.
5. A farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist.
7. A place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere.
8. Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.
9. A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.
10. A combination of companies formed by an agreement to reduce competition.
12. The belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle conflicts.
14. Laws discriminating against African Americans.
17. A person who moves livestock overland to market.