Unit 9 Cotton, Cattle, Railroads

Which region of Texas had the most railroad track?

• Great Plains

• North Central plains

• Mountains and Basins

• Coastal Plains

What was the name of the farmer’s organization

whose goal was to help farmers?

• the Alliance of Farmers

• the Grange

• the Farming Community

• the Farmer's Organization

What group was created by Stephen F. Austin to protect Texas?

• the Buffalo Soldiers

• the U.S. Army

• the Mustangers

• the Texas Rangers

What right were women trying to gain during this time period?

• right to own property

• right to go to college

• right to vote

• the right to serve on a jury

What time period of Texas History happened just BEFORE the era of

“Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads”?

• Civil War and Reconstruction

• Early Statehood

• Mexican National Era

• Texas Revolution

How did cattle first get to Texas?

• they were here long before the first

  people got here

• they came from Canada

• Santa Anna's Mexican army rode on them like horses

• Spanish explorers brought them for food

Who was the Comanche Chief?

• Quanah Parker

• Satanta

• Ten bears

• Kiowa

How did the expanding railroads effect the economy of Texas?

• The railroads were incredibly expensive to build, and ended up hurting the economy

• Beyond the noise and smoke, railroads didn’t really effect the economy at all

• Moving supplies faster, and in greater amounts, helped the economy of Texas

• None

Working land owned by someone else, and paying for the use of that land with a share of

the crop grown, is known as

• pay-to-go farming

• tenant farming

• subsistence farming

• continuation farming

What did the cotton gin do?

• it packaged the cotton in little bales

• quickly removed the seeds from the cotton

• helped the cotton grow faster

• turned cotton into brand new clothes