Texas History Unit 8

Spanish Cowboy

• Ranchero

• Vaquero

• Hombre

• Boot Scooter

What helped end Cattle drives?

• Barbed Wire

• Railroads

• Manifest Destiny

• All of the above

Windmills

• pumped water

• pumped oil

• pumped gas

• stirred the air

What is a Sharecropper?

• Person that made a crop using land owners property and financing, usually former slaves

• Person that gave away their harvests

• A shepherd

• Mr. Farr

What culture influenced Texas ranching the most?

• German

• Spanish

• Italian

• Russian

Cattle drives were a lucrative business right after the civil war

• True

• False

Who was appointed to control the Native Americans in West Texas?

• immigrants

• The Buffalo Soldiers

• other native americans

• new settlers

What did U. S. Government do to the Native Americans after Civil war?

• gave them better land

• moved them out of the way

• left them alone

• sent them to Germany

Last Chief of Comanches

• Sitting Bull

• Quanah Parker

• Crazy Horse

• Dances with Wolves

What is irrigation

• diverting or directing of water for crops and development

• land lines for telegraphs

• being really agitated

• adjective describing something very strange