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| storage or repaiar place for firearms or other weapons. |
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| one who determines the value of land or other property. |
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| the fruit of cotton plants that is picked and spun into cotton thread. |
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| interest-bering certificates of public or private indebtness; a method of borrowing money. |
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| money available for investment, construction, or expansion of buisness. |
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| a guarantee of privilege granted by the power of a state or county. |
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| hoeing rows of cotton to eep down weeds. |
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| setting aside public land fpr sale to raise cash to build schools. |
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| a device that pressed loose cotton into bales. |
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| fundamental laws of a state or nation. |
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| popular pioneer style of home consisting of two square cabins connected by a breezeway. |
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| another name for the "family," the Democratic power elite of Territorial and early statehood days in Arkansas; in general, the term means a group of rulers related by birth or marrige. |
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| a small, wealthy (or otherwised gifted), and powerful group of individuals. |
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| a short trip or a voyage, usually for pleasure |
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| gold hunters who travled to California in the Gold Rush of 1849. |
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| a state of the U.S. in which slavery was illegal. |
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| hulled corn with the germ removed, form which grits are made. |
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| workers who travel, offering their services in one place and then moving on to the next. |
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| the belief that Americans had a right to expand westward all the way to the Pacific coast. |
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| boss fo a group of salves, usually a white man. |
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| a very large farm devoted to production of one cheif crop, such as cotton or sugar; associated with a slave labor force; a farm with at least a thousand acres and twenty slaves was considered a plantation. |
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| outdoor toilet or "outhouse." |
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| A type of bankruptcy a company enters when a receiver is appointed by bankruptcy courts or creditors to run the company. |
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