Cotton, Cattle, & Railroads

What role did railroads play in Texas’ economy?

• Railroads brought very few people to Texas.
• The trains were made to transport people only.
• The railroads made it harder to transport goods to the East.
• A way to transport good to market

I was the son of an American woman captured by the Comanches and the last Chief. Who am I?

• Pete Nacona
• Iron Jacket
• Cynthia Ann Parker
• Quanah Parker

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

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

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

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

After the Civil War the supply of beef was very low in Northern states.  What will happen to the price of Texas cattle if they could be sold up North?

• Price will increase
• Price will decrease
• Price will stay the same

What word is associated with assimilate?

• Conform

• Ignore

• Fail

• misunderstand

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

Which nickname was given to the African-American regiments of the Army after the Civil War?

• Buffalo Hunters
• Red River Rebels
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Screaming Eagles

I am a former Texas Governor, Set up the Texas Railroad Commission Who am I?

• Quanah Parker
• Bose Ikard
• James Hogg
• Charles Goodnight