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