Chapter 22 - Test- Railroads & Farming C

large-scale growing crops to sell for a profit

• Dry
• Sharecropping
• commercial farming
• Tenant

Machine: separates grain or seeds from plants

• Combine
• thresher
• Shredder
• John Deere

techniques to help crops grow in dry climates

• Commercial
• dry farming
• irrigation
• Sharecropping

a railroad that runs across a continent

• Union Pacific
• Polar Express
• Southern Pacific
• transcontinental railroad

Meeting places of two or more railroad lines

• Southern Pacific
• transcontinental railroad
• Polar Express
• junctions

The deep steel plow was invented by _____________.

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Davey Crockett
• John Deere
• Sam Houston

place where the Texas and Pacific Railway met the Southern Pacific line

• Austiin
• Fort Worth
• San Antonior
• Sierra Blanca

company that built a railroad line from Galveston to Dallas and Denison in the early 1870s

• Houston and Texas Central Railway
• Polar Exprress
• Southern Pacific
• Union Pacific

one of the last regions to receive rail service

• Golf Coast Region
• High Plains
• Mountain & Basin
• Panhandle

cause of the railroad boom

• all are true
• state land-grant policy for railroads
• demand for cheap reliable transportation
• funding of railroad construction by cities
• growth of Texas agriculture and industry