Cattle Review

This helped ranchers and farmers dig underground for water. What is it?

• windmill
• Oil derrick

What kind of fence ended the cattle drive era?

• barbed wire
• Wooden

How did windmills help turn unused land into productive land for cattle, farms, and towns in the 1800's?

• windmills pumped water from underground sources for animals and crops
• windmills provided electricity to many homes, farms, and towns in Texas

What is the Spanish term for cowboy?

• vaquero
• ranchero

What form of transportation was influential in ending cattle drives?

• railroads
• planes

What was the first cattle trail that started in San Antonio,Texas and ended in Abilene, Kansas?

• Chisholm Trail
• Great Western Trail

What is public land on which ranchers grazed their cattle?

• roundup

• open range

• range wars

• open grass

What did Spanish and English breeds of cattle create?

• Oklahoma Longhorn

• Texas Longhorn

• Dakota Longhorn

• Kansas Longhorn

Where did the Cattle Kingdom stretch?

• Virginia to California

• Texas to Canada

• Texas to Dakota

• California to Kansas

Who patented barbed wire?

• Joseph McCoy

• Joseph Glidden

• Gustav Swift

• Taylor Swift