Vanqueros: America's First Cowboys Comprehension

What is the section titled "The Journeys" mostly about?

• How the Totonac people welcomed Cortes

• what explorers from Spain did in the Americas

• who supported Columbus's trips to the West Indies

• why Vera Cruz, Mexico, was once called New Spain

The Totonac people wanted to conquer the ___.

• Aztecs

• Cubans

• Haitians

• Spaniards

Which animal did Coronado introduce to the American Southwest?

• wild horses

• pot-bellied pigs

• longhorn cattle

• mountain goats

Read these details: Spanish soldiers built ranches// Soldiers and priests raised cattle//Livestock roamed the sprawling lands. Which statement below is the main idea?

• Vaqueros helped take care of the livestock.

• The Spanish king gave soldiers gifts of land.

• Catholic missionaries converted the native people.

• Coronado searched for the legendary Golden Cities.

A lasso is a ___.

• cow-man

• cattle ranch

• looped rope

• native convert

The section entitled "Way of Life" is mostly about the daily life of ___.

• vaqueros

• adventurers

• Spanish kings

• Catholic missionaries

Vaqueros wore sombreros to protect their ___.

• faces

• legs

• feet

• hands

In 1821, New Spain became ___.

• Texas

• Mexico

• America

• California

What is the main reason that vaqueros no longer needed to ride the wide-open spaces after the Civil War?

• Ranches were reduced in size and had smaller herds of cattle.

• Freed slaves and young men from the East became cowboys.

• Barbed wire allowed ranchers to keep their cattle in fenced pastures.

• Railroads were used to transport cattle to markets in eastern and western cities.

The last section, "Celebrating Traditions", is mostly about ___.

• corrals and barns

• rodeos and charrerias

• old and new haciendas

• cowboys and native people