Impact of Railroads in Texas

What was one effect of Texans building many railroad tracks in the late 1800s?

• Cities and towns in Texas shrank.

• Businesses could send and get things quickly.

• Texans stopped trading with other states.

• The population of Texas decreased.

How did the construction of railroad tracks affect American Indians?

• It improved their way of life.

• It made it easier for them to find food.

• It caused trouble in finding food and changed their way of life.

• It helped them build new homes.

What industry grew fast due to trains reaching the pine forests in East Texas by the 1870s?

• The mining industry

• The fishing industry

• The lumber industry

• The textile industry

What was one effect of building a train track to connect Galveston and Houston?

• Houston became a small town.

• Houston became a big city.

• Galveston's population shrank.

• The train track was never used.

What happened when trains reached the cattle areas in Texas?

• The cattle drives increased.

• Cattle towns like Ft. Worth grew.

• The cattle industry disappeared.

• Cattle were no longer shipped.

What happens to the price of things like cotton when there is more of a product?

• The price goes up.

• The price stays the same.

• The price goes down.

• The price doubles.

What happens to the value of something when people want less of it?

• It becomes more valuable.

• It becomes less valuable.

• It stays the same.

• It becomes priceless.

Which industry was NOT directly effected by the railroad boom?

• The cotton industry

• The lumber industry

• The oil industry

• The cattle industry

Railroads and a positive impact on economic growth for Texas cities. You can infer that most Texas cities eagerly awaited the arrival of new ___________, hoping they would make new economic growth in their town/ city.

• factories
• businesses
• restaurants
• railroads

Knowing that the railroad industry had built tracks on land where American Indians lived, hurt buffalo and made it harder for them to live and find food, you can infer that the railroad industry __________

• had a negative impact on American Indians.

• had a positive impact on American Indians.

• had no impact on American Indians.

• made life a lot easier for American Indians.