Mini Assessment: Conflict on the Frontier

Explain Quanah Parker's role during the Era "Conflict on the Frontier"?

Quanah Parker is significant to Texas history because he --

• He was a successful rancher who assimilated into American culture and influenced other American Indians to do the same.
• He was unsuccessful at business so he refused into assimilate to American culture and influenced other American Indians to do the same.
• He refused into assimilate into Spanish culture and influenced other American Indians to do the same.
• He assimilated into Spanish culture and influenced other American Indians to do the same.

Today we spent hours stringing telegraph wire here in Texas. Beginning tomorrow we will escort a wagon train leaving for the western part of the state. As we keep them safe from attacks, we will map the areas we cross to make expansion easier for the next groups. If we find any horse thieves, we will bring them to justice. Not all of the pioneer families appreciate us. They hate that the south lost the Civil War and here we are in blue uniforms, but we just follow orders and work to make Texas a better and safer place to live.

• A buffalo soldier sent to Texas
• Quanah Parker & his followers
• a Confederate soldier who has come home
• Spanish Soldiers

Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.

• Mexican Vaqueros in the Texas Panhandle
• American Indians in the Great Plains region
• buffalo hunters’ camps in Balcones Escarpment
• Anglo settlers moving into the Texas Panhandle

What was the name given to the African-American soldiers who protected the frontier in West Texas after the Civil War?

• Cattle Soldiers
• Camel Soldiers
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Western Soldiers

This man was the son of a Texas pioneer woman who was captured by the Comanche. He was a warrior and the last of the Comanche chiefs. He was a major figure in helping his people adjust to reservation life after the final battles. Along with his support for ranching, education, and agriculture, he served as a judge on the tribal court, negotiated business agreements with white investors, and fought attempts to roll back the changes instituted under his direction. Who is he?

• Quanah Parker

• Pete Nacona
• Quahada Parker

• Red Cloud

What kept MOST people from settling West Texas in the late 1800s?

• hot temperatures
• poor, rocky soil
• Native American attacks
• Manifest Destiny