Cattle and Railroads - The TX Frontier

Cattle and Railroads
The Texas Frontier

1866-1900

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Modified Curriculum

​Modified Curriculum

U.S. Army
soldiers
-mostly African
American.
● Built roads &

forts

● Patrolled the

frontier for
Indians

● Fought in wars

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Multiple Choice

buffalo soldier

First
“cowboys” -
Men who rode
horses to
work with
livestock.
Began with
Mexican and
Spanish men.

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vaquero

A system of
train tracks
that were
built all
over the
country.

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railroad

Farmer who
gave part of
his crop to the
landlord
(person who
owned the
land).

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sharecropper

Place where
livestock was
sold. (cows,
horses, pigs,
sheep)

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stockyard

Growing
crops and
livestock
for money.

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agriculture

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The Story of

Westward Expansion
and the Native
Americans

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U.S. made
a deal
with the
Indians
but not
all the
tribes
signed it.

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Stop attacking
railroads

Don’t live in
the Plains

Move to
Oklahoma

Give Indians
land

Give Indians
supplies

No U.S.
soldiers will
come to your
place

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Both sides did
not do what
they agreed.
Fighting kept
going until 1875
when the
American
Indians finally
gave up.

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The Story of

TEXAS Ranches,
Railroads, and
Cattle Drives

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Ranches:

●King Ranch

●XIT Ranch

●JA Ranch

●Wallace Ranch

●Matador Ranch

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Cattle Drives:

●Chisholm Trail

●Goodnight-Loving Trail

●Western Trail

●Sedalia Trail

Rail lines:

●Santa Fe

●Kansas Pacific

●Union Pacific

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