Unit 8: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads, and Closing the Frontier

Railroads caused these major things to grow by them.

• Indian tribes

• industries

• cities

• ports

This area of Texas had the most cotton industry and production...

• North

• South

• West

• East

Mexican American teenage girls achieving maturity

• Prom

• Quinceanera

• Homecoming

• Sadie Hawkins

Mexican immigrants influenced Texas by their food, architecture, and _____________.

• art

• songs

• religion

• celebrations

West Texas expanded due to the oil industry, Indians gone, and ___________.

• railroads

• businesses

• windmills

• plantations

Tenant farmers that received part of a crop were known as sharecroppers.

• True

• False

What helped farmers get water to their crops when there was not an access to river water?

• railroads

• windmills

• slaves

• tractors

_____________ was influenced by natural fences in the past.

• wooden fence

• hurricane fence

• barbed wire

• privacy fence

When the Civil War ended, the _______ industry was needed in the East.

• vegetable

• cotton

• cattle

• clothing

A cowboy could expect what two things on a cattle drive?

• stampedes and earthquakes

• stampedes and thunderstorms

• Indians and snakes

• thunderstorms and tornado