Black Cowboys and Cattle Trails Assessment

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What was the MAIN purpose of many nineteenth-century cattle trails such as the Chisholm Trail?

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to provide food to eastern cities

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The "Black Cowboys" of nineteenth-century Texas are MOST associated with...

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cattle drives from Texas and across the Great Plains.

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The Great Western Cattle Trail had an important role in moving goods in which direction?

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from Texas toward the Northeast

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To whom in the American West did the term "cowboy" originally refer?

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men who drove cattle from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail

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The reason for high cattle prices in the East was...

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high demand

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The first cattle trail was...

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The Chisholm Trail

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Cattle were herded along trails and then put on ...

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trains

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Which description best fits with the Black Cowboys of Texas?

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Cattle trails allowed former slaves the opportunity to make money while providing meat to busy cities along the East coast.

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Which people found new freedoms by becoming cowboys in the West?

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black men

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Where did cattle drives begin?

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Texas