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19 Cards in this Set
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Squatters
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People who just pick unoccupied land as their own without paying for it.
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Flatboats
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boat with flat bottom used for transporting heavy loads on island waterways
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G.T.T.
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abbreviation for Gone To Texas
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Dogtrot cabins
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log cabins that had two rooms separated by an open passage
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Quilting bees
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social events where people get together to make quilts
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Buckskin
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deer hide clothing worn by early settlers
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Venison
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meat from a deer
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Thomas J. Pilgrim
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Baptist man who organized the first Sunday school in San Felipe in 1829
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Mary Wightman
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In 1829, began a sunday school in matagorda
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Frances Trask
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In 1835 opened a girls' boarding school in Cole's Settlement
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Plantations
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large farms that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit and usually relied on slave labor
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Free enterprise
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Economic system in which individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of government interference
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Barter
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To exchange goods or services without the use of money
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Exports
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goods produced domestically and sold abroad
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William Goyens
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helped Sam Houston negotiate a peace treaty with the Cherokee so that they would remain neutral during the Texans conflict with Mexico during the Revolution. well-respected citizen and successful businessman.
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Imports
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goods and services brought into a nation from another nation
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Sawmills
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Places where people use machines that cuts timber into boards.
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Federalism
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A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
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Constitution of 1824
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Mexican constitution that gave limited power to the central government and broad local authorities to the states
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