Cotton Cattle Railroad Review

How did Cowboys feel about the close of the open range? 

• Happy (Less Work)
• The Mourned its loss (Sad)

Which of the following is true of a tenant farmer

• a.  Tenant farmers were typically supposed to provide the labor, seed, tools, and work animals while the landowner provided the land.
• Tenant farmers worked on their own land and had to give their crops to government
• Tenant farmers worked on land for a share of the crop.
• a.  Tenant farmers were able to save enough money to buy their own land.

Tenant Means: 

• To own 
• To Rent
• To Buy 
• To Give Up 

Subsistence farming...

• Where you rent property from a landowner
• Very small farming, farming for survival
• Large farm, selling crops for profit
• Forced Labor, slavery 

Sharecropping: 

• Where someone rents the land
• Where someone borrows everything, and shares crops as payment
• Increased commercial farming 
• A very successful way to farm 

This style of farming caused a cycle of debt a never able to really get ahead.

• tenant 
• subsistence
• sharecropping
• commercial

All of the following were factors that fostered westward expansion into Texas EXCEPT

•  land for farming and ranching
• growth of the railroads
• removal of American Indians
• failure of the cotton crops

How did the end of the Civil War affect the cattle industry?

• The demand for beef in the East brought rapid growth.
• Farmers had to move west and take land needed for grazing.
• Much of the land used for grazing was destroyed in the war.
• The loss in the Confederacy brought many cowboys to Texas.

What was the reason for the invention of Barbed wire?

• Needed to keep pigs in pens
• Use of natural fences in the past 
• earlier inventors of fence influence
• drawings created by Indians

What role did railroads play in Texas’ economy?

• Railroads brought very few people to Texas.
• The trains were made to transport people only.
• The railroads made it harder to transport goods to the East.
• A way to transport good to market