| A | B |
|---|
| hard money | gold or silver |
| cash crop | a crop that is produced mainly for sale |
| gristmill | a place where grain is ground |
| tannery | a place where animal hide is converted into leather |
| cotton gin | a machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign materials from cotton |
| foundry | a place where hot liquid metal is cast or molded |
| calico | a cotton fabric with figured patterns |
| capital | money set aside for a specific purpose |
| interest | income received from capital |
| slavery | Farmers who wanted to increase their earnings in the 1850s turned to this. |
| inhumane | Even under the gentlest of slaveholders, slavery was ____________. |
| human rights | A slave was not allowed basic ________________________. |
| four | About one of every ______ Texans owned slaves. |
| economic | People justified slavery on _____________ grounds. |
| planters | People who had 20 or more slaves were called this. |
| East Texas | Most plantations were located here. |
| San Antonio | The largest city in Texas in 1860 |
| Galveston | The state's second largest city and most important shipping center |
| Houston | The third largest city in the state and Galveston's neighbor and rival |
| dancing | one of the most popular forms of recreation |
| newspapers | these served as an important source for information |
| cotton | chief cash crop |
| corn | major food crop |
| stagecoaches | an expensive and dangerous means of travel |
| steamboat | a form of travel that was comfortable and cheap |
| railroads | the first of these were built in Texas in the 1850s |
| telegraph | an important means of communication in the 1850s |
