Ranchers and Farmers

How did the Cattle Kingdom Ends

• Too many cattle filled the market and prices fell

• Little Rainfall

• Strong winter winds

• Snow would bury animals and trap families

What is Barbed wire

• wire to water passed to

• wire for video games

• wire fences used to protect farmers land

• wire for tv

What was the Homestead Act 1862

• Gave 150 free acres of land to a settler who

  paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 3 years

• Gave 160 free acres of land to a settler who

  paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 5 years

• Gave 170 free acres of land to a settler who

  paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 9 years

• Gave 10 free acres of land to a settler who

  paid a filing fee and lived on the land for 10 years

What was one of Farming Challenges

• plagues of grasshoppers

• seeds deep in ground

• break up soil

• dead crops

what are Exodusters

• Proposed to break up reservations to end Indian identification with

  tribe.

• Native American children sent to white boarding school.

• African Americans who migrated into Kansas in the

  1870’s

• Used lightweight steel plows invented in the 1870’s to break up soil

How much of ________ was open range

• Dodge City

• Abilene

• Kansas

• Texas

Cowhands rode in saddle up to _______ every day

• 12 hours

• 15 hours

• 5 hours

• 34 hours

What is a boomer

• Taxas homesteader

• Abilen homesteaders

• Cheyenne homesteaders

• Oklahoma homesteaders

What was Dry Farming

• Planted seeds deep in ground

• The price of cattle collapsed by the mid-1880

• Overgrazing depleted grasslands

• Too many cattle filled the market and prices fell

Texans initially drove their cattle north to be loaded on the nearest trains in ___________.

• Abilene

• Dodge City

• Cheyenne

• Missouri