Cattle Trails

Which method of transportation was used to move cattle?

• Steamboats
• Railroads
• Cars
• Planes

Why was there a shortage of cattle in the east?

• They died.

• There weren't many to begin with.

• The Civil War soldiers ate most of it during the war.

• None of these.

What was the solution to getting the Texas cattle to the east?

• herding the cattle to places like Kansas with railheads and putting them on trains

• putting them on trucks

• putting them on wagons in Kansas

• herding them to the east

The first cattle trail that led to Kansas was called the

• Great Western Trail

• Chisholm Trail

• Panama Canal

• Abeline, Kansas

What was the name of the trail that cattle to the northeast?

• The Kansas Trail

• The Chisolm Trail

• The Great Western Trail

• The Oklahoma Trail

A group of former slaves who worked on the cattle trails were called ____________________.

• Black Cowboys

• Joqueres

• Spanish Cowboys

• gold hunters

Black Cowboys had less ____________on cattle trails.

• work

• responsibility

• discrimination

• help

Why was the Chisholm Trail important to America?

• It was a great way to travel to America before there were any roads.

• The Chisholm Trail was another name for the railroad and that’s how people got around.

• Cattle were herded on the Chisholm Trail up to the railroad, so they could be sold for a good profit back north/east.

• Cows were taken down to Mexico on the Chisholm Trail and improved America’s relationship with Mexico.

The Great Western Cattle Trail had an important role in moving goods in which direction?

• From Oregon toward the Midwest

• From Texas toward the Northeast

• From California toward the Atlantic coast

• From Oklahoma toward the Pacific coast

Why did freed slaves go to Texas and work as cowboys in the years after the Civil War?

• They could own land in California

• They were sold to Texas ranchers.

• They were treated equally to white cowboys

• They thought the cowboy life was easy.