Cotton, Cattle, & Railroads

All of the following were factors that fostered westward expansion into Texas EXCEPT

•  land for farming and ranching
• growth of the railroads
• removal of American Indians
• failure of the cotton crops

Why did ranching develop in West Texas instead of farming?

• Water Resources were scarce
• Lack of railroads
• Politics
• Oil was discovered in West Texas

Which of the following factors was MOST effective in preventing the settlement of West Texas?

• distance

• hot temperatures

• poor, rocky soil

• Native American attacks

What word is associated with assimilate?

• Conform

• Ignore

• Fail

• misunderstand

What kind of conflicts would take place between Farmers & Ranchers?

• Fighting over water rights & cutting barbed wire
• Fighting over reservation land
• Fighting corrupt Railroad companies

Spanish for Cowboy

Which explains a change in lifestyle of American Indian tribes after the Civil War?

• Many tribes experienced drought and famine.
• Many tribes moved westward to find buffalo.
• Tribes were removed to reservations.
• Tribes farmed after buffalo herds disappeared.

What was the reason for the invention of Barbed wire?

• Needed to keep pigs in pens
• Use of natural fences in the past 
• earlier inventors of fence influence
• drawings created by Indians

The range wars between farmers and ranchers were conflicts over all of the following EXCEPT

• control of water rights
• the textiles industry
• use of barbed wire
• cattle driving

 What reality did cowboys face on their long cattle drives north?

• Possible Stampedes
• surprise attacks by Indians
• criminals and bullies
• Natural disaster