Chapter 7 Kansas History

Was a one several cattle towns in Kansas.

• Dodge City
• Houston
• Atlanta
• Americus

Marked the area where Texas Cattle could not go

• Stop sign
• quarantine line
• Chisholm Trail
• Trail Boss

Cattle trail that ran from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.

• Mormon Trail
• Oregon Trail
• Chisholm Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

Person in charge of the cattle drive

• Trail Boss
• Boss baby
• Mafia Boss

Disease that infected local cattle

• Lyme Disease
• Polio
• Texas Fever
• Flu

Trail Blazer who marked portions of the most famous cattle trail.

• Jesse's Girl
• Jesse Chisholm
• Jesse the Body Ventura
• Jesse Smith

This person established the Aatchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.

• Cyrus K. Holiday
• Thomas Train
• Cyrus McGomery
• Miley Cyrus

When railroads extended their lines into Texas..............

• cattle drives ended.
• the price of beef went down.
• Kansas cowtowns died out.
• railroads shut down in Kansas.

A law passed in Kansas established a ___________ line; keeping all Texas cattle west of McPherson.

• monopoly
• quarantine
• obsolete
• subsistence

How did the U.S. government encourage the railroads to build out West and into Kansas?

• providing them with land grants
• by passing laws enforcing them to do it
• by creating railroad monopolies
• by forcing Native Americans to move