CCRRO Review

Barbed wire led to the end of

• the open range.

• irrigation in West Texas.

• sharecropping.

• the oil boom.

Fences constructed of this helped end the cattle drives.

• barbed wire

• cotton

• oil

• buffalo hides

Native Americans agreed to remain on reservations

U.S. government agreed to provide necessary supplies

This list describes the --

• Medicine Lodge Treaty

• Spindletop Agreement

• Texas Railroad Commission

• Farmers' Alliance

In the Medicine Lodge Treaty the U.S. government agreed to provide food and supplied for --

• buffalo soldiers on the frontier.

• Native Americans on reservations.

• Spanish missionaries.

• cowboys on cattle drives.

Many ranching techniques were first used by --

• the Spanish.

• the French.

• Anglo colonists.

• buffalo soldiers.

Spanish missionaries were the first _____________in Texas.

• ranchers

• oil men

• map makers

• bankers

People rushed in looking for oil

Often over crowded and dirty

This list is describing --

• boomtowns

• oil derricks

• wildcatters

• the open range

Located near oil fields

Experienced rapid population growth in a short time

• boomtowns

• barbed wire

• windmills

• cattle trails

Used to indicate ownership of livestock

• cattle brands

• roughnecks

• drilling rigs

• boomtowns

Cowboys used these to mark cattle and prevent theft

• branding irons

• barbed wire fences

• lariats

• drill bits