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