5th Grade Chapter 18 Test C. Swinney

African Americans who left the South to go west were called _____________.

• Exodusters

• Sodbusters

• Rustlers

• Vaqueros

A _____________ was a journey by cowboys, who herded cattle from ranches on a trail leading to railroads

• expedition

• cattle drive

• cowboy roundup

• rustler's rhapsody

__________ was a homestead town founded by African Americans from Kentucky.

• Harper's Ferry
• Jamestown
• Nicodemus
• Tuskegee

About ___ of all cowboys were African American or Mexican American.

• one-third
• three-quarters
• two-thirds
• one-half

_________ was created to keep cattle out of farmers' fields.

• Gates
• Bridges
• Barbed wire

• Fences

___________ was a former slave who became a famous cowboy.

• Mary Fields
• Jesse Stahl
• Bill Pickett
• Nat Love

In 1874 millions of grasshoppers swarmed the plains, and it became known as the ______________________.

• Year of the Grasshopper
• Plague of the Locust
• Insect Invasion
• Great Grasshopper Year

One of the most famous cattle trails was the ____________.

• Goodnight Trail
• Longhorn Trail
• Cattleman's Trail
• Chisholm Trail

Settlers on the prairies made houses out of sod called "_________."

• soddies

• mud huts
• straw cabins
• brick cottages

__________ set up stockyards, or cattle pens, right along the railroads.

• Richard Goodnight

• James Oliver

• Charles Loving

• John Wayne