Unit #9 Cotton Cattle and Railroads Exam Review

What change aided Texas businesses greatly by allowing them to ship products to distant markets?

• Invention of the cotton gin

• Expansion of the railroad

• Rise of the cattle industry

• Railroad companies forming monopolies

What European group brought cattle to Texas, initiating the cattle industry there?

• The French

• The Spanish

• The Germans

• The British

What strategy largely succeeded in forcing the remaining Native American groups onto reservations?

• Treaty of Medicine Lodge

• Hunting the buffalo to near extinction

• Expanding the railroad

• Purchasing of Native American lands

What two immigrant groups were largely responsible for building the railroads of the U.S. in the late 1800s?

• Chinese and Japanese

• Irish and German

• German and Japanese

• Chinese and Irish

Which of the following was NOT true about Quanah Parker?

• Comanche chief

• Captured and killed by the Texas Rangers

• Led the attack on Adobe Walls

• Adapted to reservation life by becoming a successful cattle rancher

The use of machines in farming (mechanization) led to the growth of ____________.

• tenant farming

• commercial agriculture

• the cattle industry

• sheep ranching

The U.S. government failing to provide enough food and supplies for Native Americans on the reservations is one reason that the ________________________ failed.

• Missouri Compromise

• 13th Amendment

• Treaty of Medicine Lodge

• Treaty of Guadaupe-Hidalgo

How did Texas ranchers attempt to make great profit after the Civil War?

• Hunting buffalo to near extinction

• Rounding up cattle and driving them north to the railroads

• Employing sharecroppers and creating a cycle of debt

• Selling land back to the Native Americans

Which of the following was one of the reasons that the Treaty of Medicine Lodge failed?

• Settlers continued to move into Native lands

• The Native Americans had no interest in peace

• An exchange of prisoners never took place

• The Texas Rangers ended up arresting Native chiefs

The expansion of the railroad had many POSITIVE effects on the U.S. economy, one of which was encouraging ____________.

• tenant farming

• free enterprise (starting businesses)

• government regulation

• the formation of trusts (creating monopolies)