Chapter 8 Study Guide (2023)

After the civil war, I joined a group that tried to round up cattle across the state that had roamed during the civil war. Recovered much of the cattle, but needed to get the herd to the North where they were paying top dollar for beef. My partner was Oliver Loving, blazed the trail west across Texas and up Colorado. Who am I?

• Charles Goodnight

• Lizzie Johnson

• Henry Ford

• Patillo Higgins

Who is a famous Texan because she traveled the Chisholm Trail with a herd of cattle?

• Charles Goodnight

• Lizzie Johnson

• Henry Ford

• Patillo Higgins

Ways Texans modify their environment-

drill for _____ catch shrimp, and build shipping channels.

Building railroads changed Texas because cities like _____ grew bigger

• Robinson

• Houston

• Dallas

• Waco

By the end of the nineteenth century, most ranchers transported cattle around the country by _____

• horses

• cars

• planes

• railroad

In the late nineteenth century, many small towns in Texas encouraged local economic growth and development by building a _____.

• cattle ranch

• shipping channel

• railroad station

• cattle

Cattle trails helped make ranching an important industry in Texas because the trails let ranchers sell cattle for a _____ price.

• lower

• higher

• same

• different

An _____ moves a product past workers who stay in place.

• assembly line

• cattle ranch

• railroad station

• free enterprise

_____ began to make automobiles in Detroit, Michigan in 1903.

• Lizzie Johnson

• Henry Ford

• Patillo Higgins

• Charles Goodnight

Free enterprise is based on supply and ______.

• demand

• oil

• cattle

• trains