Ch 18 Vocab Quiz Part

Spanish settlers brought their cattle to California and Texas in the 1700's. These cattle mixed with the English breeds to create the ________. This breed spread quickly throughout western Texas.

• Texas longhorn
• Texas shorthorn
• Texas bull

A long journey that was the cowboy's most important and dangerous duty. Cowboys herded the cattle to the market or to the Northern Plains for grazing. 

• cattle drive
• bull drive
• horse drive

________ or water rights, to ponds and rivers. Buying this allowed ranchers use the scarce water as well as the land around it.

• stove rights
• oven rights
• range rights

The _________ granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states.

• The Morrill Act
• The Homestead Act
• Housestead Act

Ranchers grazed their huge herds on public land called __________. 

• open range
• closed range
• range rights

In the 1890s farmers on the western Plains began to learn a new method called _______. This method shifted the focus from water dependent crops such as corn to hardier crops such as red wheat.

• dry farming 
• wet farming
• lukewarm farming

The ________ was a competition between the large ranch owners and small ranch owners. It was a competition to see who would have control over the open range and valuable water sources.

• ranch wars
• farm wars
• range wars

Wrote an autobiography about his life as a cowboy.

• Elizabeth Collins
• Joseph McCoy
• Nat Love

The promise of land also drew a large group of Southern African Americans west. These settlers became known as ________.

• Exodusters
• Enodusters
• Epodusters

Gathering the cattle together was known as _________.

• roundup
• roundabout
• rounddown