Cattle Cotton and Railroads: Frontier/ Cattle

Why would the cattle be driven to Kansas?

• Civil war fighting prevented them from going East

• That is where the railroads were.

• Ships couldn't carry enough cattle

• Kansas had hungry gold miners.

Cowboys were

• All white

• All hispanic

• All former slaves

• A mix of all races working long hours and poor pay

What closed the open range?

• Fireproof doors

• Barbed Wires

• The Sheriff

• Elite Military units

Breed of cattle used in early cattle drives

• Dry Farming

• Texas Fever

• Commissioners

• Rustlers

• Longhorns

The movement of cattle from the range to the railroads

• Barbed Wire

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Brands

• Cattle Drive

• Range Wars

The purpose of cattle drives was 

• To make cattle lose weight from the exercise
• To give cowboys rodeo skills practice
• To move cattle from Southern Texas to the railroad yards so they could be quickly transported to people in the North and East
• To spread out the herds to other parts of the country

How did the cattle industry begin in Texas?

• It didn't begin in Texas

• Crops were dying so Texans needed a new job

• The Spanish brough cattle to Texas and the vaquero took care of them on ranches

Why did the cattle industry grow in Texas after the Civil War?

• The Civil War killed all the cows.

• There was a demand for beef in the north and Texas had a large supply of cattle.

• Settlers moved in and brought new cows.

The invention of _______ ended the cattle drives and started the _______ wars.

• automatic rifles / Indian
• reservations / frontier
• railroads / meat-packing
• barbed wire / fence-cutting

How was life rough for cowboys?

• Rough?  Being a cowboy was easy and lots of fun.
• They spent months on the trail, faced bad weather, risky river crossings, stampedes, and attacks.
• They worked five hours each day and only got a thirty-minute lunch break.
• All of these answer are correct.