Cotton/Cattle/Railroads

What technology made it possible to tap into underground water in aquifers?

• Barbed wire
• Railroads
• Windmill
• Branding Iron

What effect did the following have on Texas:
-Steel Plow
-Barbed Wire
-Indians moved to reservations
-Increased access to railroad

• West Texas could now be farmed
• Farming in East TX suffered
• More immigrants came to TX
• Cattle ranching was no longer need

I was the son of a white woman and Comanche father who led Native Americans against buffalo hunters at Adobe walls...

• Squatting Dog
• Chief Bieber
• Chief Satank
• Quannah Parker

What was the main cause of the decline in cattle drives?

• Railroads expanded into Texas
• All the cows died
• Americans stopped eating meat
• People started eating more chicken

General Philip Sheridan wanted to exterminate the buffalo because he believed...

• that Buffalo were ugly
• It would force the Native Americans onto the reservations
• the Buffalo were looking at him funny
• buffalo wings were delicious

What is being described below:
- Lived exciting lives as heroes
- Were fearless and and worry free 
- Roamed through beautiful landscapes

• Myths of being a cowboy
• Cows 
• Reality of being a cowboy
• Clifford the Big Red Dog

What is being described below:
- Low Pay
- Boring/Dirty/Hard work

• Training a Buffalo to fetch
• Myths of being a cowboy
• Digging a hole to China
• Realities of being a cowboys

What was a ranchers motivation for long cattle drives?

• Northerners were willing to pay more for cattle
• Ranchers got bored
• Ranchers were following the Native Americans
• Southerners would pay less for cattle

What was the main difference between farming in East TX and West TX?

• East TX had a higher elevation 
• West TX had limited amounts of water 
• West TX was to cold to farm
• The direction in which crops were grown

What caused the following:
- Disease spread 
- Increase in crime
- Hospitals built
- Creation of fire and police forces

• Rise in population
• Philly winning the Superbowl
• The extermination of the Buffalo
• John Wayne