Cotton Cattle and Railroads Review

The reason many farms began to become successful in Texas

• Windmills

• Irrigation

• Barbed Wire

• All of these

African American Cavalry who fought on the frontier

• Buffalo Soldiers

• The African American Regiment

• The Indian Fighters

• The Buffalo Bunch

Which doesn't apply to James Hogg?

• He created the Texas Railroad Commission

• He served as governor and attorney general of Texas

• He was a populist who favored the common man

• He believed big businesses need protection from high taxes

Too many cattle produce low demand, and lower prices

• Cattle Boom

• Texas Cattle Kingdom

• Bust cycle in the cattle industry

• Boom cycle in the cattle industry

Cotton overproduction drops prices; Cotton prices rise as cotton seed becomes more valuable

• King Cotton

• Boom and Bust Cycle of Cotton

• Boll Weevil infestation

• Effects of the Windmill

This invention brought water to the dry west Texas plains

• Railroads

• Cotton Gin

• Dry Farming

• Windmill

These inventions brought about the end of the 'open range'

• Railroads and Barbed Wire

• Windmills and Irrigation

• Windmills and Railroads

• Barbed Wire and Irrigation

The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 failed because...

• The government didn't provide promised supplies

• Indians left the reservation to raid settlements

• Hunters came onto tribal lands

• All of these

Quanah Parker led a war band at this battle, where 28 buffalo hunters defeated hundreds of Comanches with their long rifles

• 1st Battle of Adobe Walls

• 2nd Battle of Adobe Walls

• Salt Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

Quanah Parker convinced many of his fellow Indians to do this...

• Continue to fight whites over land

• Take jobs offered by the government working on the railroads

• Move onto reservations and assimilate to white life

• Build a massive army to defeat the Buffalo Soldiers