Cowboys and Cattle Trails

What was the role of the Great Western Cattle Trails?

• To keep Native Americans from buying cattle

• The main road for cowboys to travel North

• A railroad to transport cattle

• The main road for cowboys to travel West

What was one reason for cattle trails to begin?

• People in the east needed meat because soldiers ate it during the war.

• Cattle did not graze in the east.

• No one would tend to cattle in the east.

• Cattle was scarce in the west.

Who was the Chisholm trail named after?

• Joseph McCoy

• Jesse Chisholm

• James Chisholm

• Chisholm McCoy

Which route took cattle to the most Northern territory?

• The Great Western Cattle Trail

• The Chisholm Trail

• Sedalia Trail

• The Abilene Trail

Black and white cowboys worked along side each other on the trails.

• True

• False

What was the first cattle trail that started in San Antonio, Texas and ended in Abilene Kansas?

• The Great Western Cattle Trail

• Goodnight Loving Trail

• Chisholm Trail

• Sedalia Trail

After the Civil War, Texans sent their cattle to the east because ____________________________

• they were vegetarians.

• the cows had diseases.

• they could get a better price for them.

• most Texans relocated to the east to live.

It was his idea to start cattle trails from north Texas to Kansas.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jesse Chisholm

• Joseph McCoy

• Joseph McCartney

Cattle were headed along trails and then put on _______________.

• planes.

• car.

• boat.

• trains.

What was the name of the cattle trail that went from south Texas to Abilene, Kansas?

• Goodnight Loving Trail

• Rio Grande Trail

• Chisholm Trail

• The Cowboy Trail