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7th-Texas History
The Cattle Kingdom
Question | Answer |
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Where did the first cattle in America come from? | Spain in the 1500s |
What 3 things made Texas perfect for raising cattle? | Texas had a good water supply, nutritious grasses, and ideal climate for raising cattle. |
What is a vaquero? | A cowhand that tends cattle on the open range. |
Why do ranchers brand cattle? | To show ownership and help prevent cattle rustling. |
What is tallow? | Fat from cattle used to make soap and cook with. |
Where did the railroads allow ranchers to ship there cattle? | To the stockyards where they could be penned for slaughtering or transported. |
The Chisholm Trail went from where to where? | South Texas, north past Austin and Ft. Worth, across the Red River, to Abilene , Kansas. |
What does a drover do? | To move cattle along a trail and protecting them from ruslters or indians. |
What was the job of the wrangler? | To take care of the horses. |
What was the results of Texas Fever? | Law enforcement agencies enforced qurantines. |
After the Civil War, Anglo ranchers learned to use roping skills, chaps, saddles and the horse from who? | They learned from the Spanish ranchers. |
Cattle driving sarted in 1866 and ended when? | 1886 |
Ranchers began moving their cattle north because.... | there was not a strong market for cattle in Texas, therefore not a lot of profit was made. |
Two problems of the Texas rancers were... | theft and sometimes drought. |
An open range ment there were... | no barbed wire fences on Texas range land. |
Many African Americans were .... | cowhands after the Civil War. |
texas ranchers began shipping their cattle north because they could.... | make thousands of more dollars selling them to the market up north. |
Movie writers often omit events or add events to make movies about the west in the late 1800s.... | a more dramatic story. |
Documentaries are a ... | more acurate dipiction of cowboy life. |
After the Civil War, Anglo ranchers learned to use roping skills, chaps, saddles and the horse from who? | They learned from the Spanish ranchers. |
Cattle driving sarted in 1866 and ended when? | 1886 |
Ranchers began moving their cattle north because.... | there was not a strong market for cattle in Texas, therefore not a lot of profit was made. |
Two problems of the Texas rancers were... | theft and sometimes drought. |
An open range ment there were... | no barbed wire fences on Texas range land. |
Many African Americans were .... | cowhands after the Civil War. |
texas ranchers began shipping their cattle north because they could.... | make thousands of more dollars selling them to the market up north. |
Movie writers often omit events or add events to make movies about the west in the late 1800s.... | a more dramatic story. |
Documentaries are a ... | more acurate dipiction of cowboy life. |
By the year 1883 most ranges are... | fenced in. |
Because sheep sometimes trampled farmers crops and cropped the grass on the range to short.... | Ranchers and farmers began to fence in theirs lands with barbed wire. |
Mustangs were the wild descendants of the horses... | brought to Texas by the Spaniards. |
Mustangers caught the mustangs and broke them for riding and.... | made a profit by selling them to the US Army or ranchers. |
When the number of wild mustangs was reduced by cattle ranching and it was harder to make a profit off them.... | ranchers began raising sheep and selling their wool to make money. |
Sheep ranchers came from the North and from Europe to.... | make money in the sheep ranching business. |
Cattle ranchers did not always like the sheep ranchers because the sheep... | overgrazed the land and trampled crops. |
Charles Goodnight was a retired Texas Ranger and military guide who.... | in 1876 became partners with JA Adair to form the large and successful ranch in the panhandle know as the JA Ranch. |
Most Hollywood movies do not show that a large number of cowhands in the late 1800s were... | African American or Mexican American. |
Fence cutting was a serious crime or a ... | felony. |
Cattle ranchers produced to many cattle over time and overexpanded there businesses so... | cattle prices fell. |
Overgrazing ruined... | rangeland. |
Sever drought and blizzards in the mid-1880s caused... | ranchers to sell cattle at a lower price. |
Windmills pumped water from underground wells to allow cattle to have.... | a water supply in a fenced pasture. |
Wool shearing was from... | the Mexican American heritage. |
Dry farming allowed farmers to... | plow and leave a layer of loose soil on the ground to keep water in the ground. |
Railroads encouraged farmers to... | settle on land close to the railroads. |
After the Civil War the most important crop was... | cotton because farmers were able to make a good profit from it. |
Railroads provided a way to transport cotton to a market with a .... | higher profit. |
Sugarcane and rice were grown on the.... | Gulf Coast for a profit. |
Some farms in Texas after the Civil War failed because... | the farmers did not know how to use the land properly |
Post Civil War farmers also had to face... | droughts and grasshoppers. |
When India and Egypt entered the cotton market, the world supply of cotton.... | increased and caused a surplus. |
Surpluses in a market can cause... | lower market prices and loss of profit for some farmers. |
Many black slaves became a part of the... | tenant system to provide for their families. |
Tenant farmers rented small farms and gave... | the land owner a third or forth of their crops. |
After the Civil War, slaves also became sharecroppers, which were given land, seed, and tools for... | half of their crops. |
Cotton crops required a large amount of physical labor to harvest which meant... | children were put to work at a very early age. |
the tenant system required the farmers to work from... | "Can see to can't." |
The tenant system was an economical response to... | slaves who had to find work and make money. |
Ranching did not require as many people as ... | farming did. |
Farming brought more people to Texas which... | developed many small towns with schools,businesses, and churches. |