Reconstruction-Cattle +Cotton

What industry did the XIT Ranch fund in exchange for more land?

• re-building the state capitol
• moving Native Americans
• the meatpacking plants
• new railroads

What woman drove her own cattle up the Chisholm Trail 1873?

• Maragret Heffernan Borland
• Elizabeth Johnson Williams
• Henrietta King
• Molly Goodnight

What problem ended the great Texas Cattle drive in 1866?

• Texas fever
• years of drought
• start of the civil war
• invention of barbed wire

What problem ended the great Texas Cattle drive in 1866?

• Texas fever
• years of drought
• start of the civil war
• invention of barbed wire

How many years after the resignation of Governor Davis would Democrats remain in power in Texas?

• 15 years
• 35 years
• 75 years
• 105 years

What invention aided the cotton market in the late 1800's?

• gas powered tractor
• the steam engine
• telegraph
• air conditioning

What is an example of a black code?

• a secret symbol used by the Underground RR
• 15th amendment to the U.S.
• law prohibiting Afro- Americans from being on a jury
• Law giving Afro- Americans the right to hold a public office

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

• integrate Blacks fully into Southern society
• ensure the South paid off their war bill
• to restore the South to the Union quickly
• To have the North control the South

Which group wanted stricter requirements from Confederates to rejoin the Union?

• Radical Republicans
• Democratic-Republicans
• Democrats
• Whigs

What was a factor the help end the great cattle trails in the 1860's?

• Americans changed their food preferences
• Dangers from the Native American raids
• Falling beef prices and closing the open range
• rise in competing industries