1. Cotton, Cattle & Railroad
Vocabulary
Cotton, Cattle & Railroad

2. People decide on issues by Voting.
Popular Sovereignty
People decide on issues by Voting.

3. To withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union.
Secession
To withdraw, including the withdrawal of states from the Union.

4. Urbanization
Texas Cities expanded and people moved from Farms and Ranches to populated area’s to find work.

5. Manifest Destiny
The Idea that the united states had a duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

6. Checks and Balances
The government is separated into different branches to limit the power from one central location.

7. Judicial Branch
The Judicial branch declares law unconstitutional, When you think about the Judicial branch just think “Judges” They judge laws.

8. The Republic of Texas
What is a republic? A Republic is a form of government that Texas choose as an independent nation that would ensure them political freedom.

9. Crops that are sold for profit
Cash Crops
Crops that are sold for profit

10. Sharecropper
Farmers who rented land, tools, seeds and/or houses and promised part of their crop as payment.

11. Land grant
A block of public land that the government gives to a business, school or other organization.