Frontier Texas Review

What does rural mean?

• Agricultural area (fields), not in the city

• Crowded cities near skyscrapers

• An area that doesnt have much rainfall

• an area near the coast

How did adding fences and "closing the range/frontier" impact cattle drives?

• People stopped owning cattle

• People started to move away to other states

• Cattle drives decreased

• Cattle became unpopular

The XIT Ranch was

• A place for new immigrants

• The largest ranch in Texas

• A new type of ranch in the city

• A type of dressing for Salad

What is NOT a POLITICAL effect of the opening of farming in West Texas?

• Growing govt in the West

• More representative in govt to represent more citizens

• More judges and law officials

• More people moving in for farmland

Rich (good) farmland led to what? (TWO answers!)

• Population growth

• More revenue ($) from growing crops

• Decrease in rainfall

• Decrease in city growth

A sharecropper is someone who

• was an wealthly, expert farmer

• had to farm on land owned by someone else, had to rent tools

• collected extra crops for the poor

• someone who kept records of seeds for the state

What is NOT an impact of Railroads in Texas?

• faster transportation

• cheaper transportation

• more settlers immigrating to Texas

• increased violence (gunslinging)

What is an example of SOCIAL change because of the spread of agriculture?

• Cities growing, opening new businesses

• Increase in population

• Increased violence (gunslinging)

• Laws made in congress

What does urban mean?

• houses

• city area

• frontier

• fields

What area of Texas was the cattle industry located and growing?

• Coastal plains

• West Texas

• East Texas

• Woodland area