Cotton, Cattle, Railroads

There was a demand for what after the Civil War in the Northeastern United States

• Sports Cars

• Railroad

• Beef

Who was forced out of West Texas to make room for cattle ranches?

• Native Americans

• Slaves

• Mexicans

Texas remained a very agricultural state after the Civil War and still relied heavily on __________ production

• Wheat

• Cotton

• Corn

This invention led the closure of the open range and many ranches throughout Texas.

• Barbed Wire

• Clothes line

• Fencing

These were used to transport cattle to Railroads in the north

• Cattle Drives

• Cattle Trails

• Cattle Paths

These people helped force Native Americans out of Texas

• Buffalo Soldiers

• U.S. Army

• Settlers

Son of Comanche War Chief Peta Nacona and Cynthia Ann Parker, last leader of the Comanches 

• Quanah Parker
• Cynthia Ann Parker
• James Hogg
• Scot Joplin

___________ drove cattle from ranches to the railheads.

• Cowboys
• Explorers
• Railroad officials
• Meat dealers

What new technology was fast and carried a lot of items at once?

• railroad

• cattle drives

• sharecropping

• fisheries

The Buffalo Soldiers were --

• brave Comanche warriors who raided Texan settlements

• African-American troops who guarded the Texas frontier

• settlers who hunted buffalo on Native American lands

• members of the Confederate militia