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Texas Our Texas -- Chapter 6 -- New Growth, New Challenges
Texas, Our Texas textbook, Chapter 6: New Growth, New Challenges
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History
4th Grade
02/01/2014

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Longhorn
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Cattle with horns up to six feet apart
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Brand
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A mark made on cattle to tell which ranch owned them
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Cattle Drive
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A trip to lead cattle along the trails to the railroad to be sold
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Stampede
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A herd of frightened animals running wild
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Barbed Wire
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Twisted wire with sharp points made to keep cattle in an area
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Lizzie Johnson Williams
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The "Cattle Queen of Texas," she owned a large ranch
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Joseph Glidden
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Invented barbed wire
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Chisholm Trail
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Cattle trail that stretched from San Antonio to Abilene, Kansas
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Grange
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Organization of farmers who helped each other
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Reform
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A change intended to make things better
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Texas Railroad Commission
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Helped enforce fairness in railroad fees
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Norris Wright Cuney
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Fought against separation of whites and blacks, to keep them treated equally
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Sarah Horton Cockrell
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Helped Dallas grow by building hotels and a bridge over the Trinity river
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James Hogg
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Governor of Texas and Railroad Commissioner, he helped rural Texans
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Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek
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Treaty between USA and Native Americans to move them to reservations
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Reservation
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Land set aside by the government
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Satanta
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Kiowa Chief who was captured by General Sherman
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General William Tecumseh Sherman
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Enforced the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek and moved the Native Americans to reservations
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Quanah Parker
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Comanche Chief who helped his people survive on the reservation by building schools and raising cattle
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Ranald S. MacKenzie
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Colonel who battled Quanah Parker and forced them onto the reservation
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Henry O. Flipper
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African American army officer who served as part of the Buffalo Soldiers
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