WorksheetsRanchers and Farmers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
What state was much of open plains?
Arizona
Mexico
Texas
California
How could ranchers tell which was their cattle from other cattle?
Branding
Put tags on them
Put ribbon around necks
They can't
Where did Texans drive their cattle to, Which state?
Tennessee
Alabama
Missouri
Ohio
_____________ depleted grasslands
Overgrazing
Stampedes
Fights
People settling on grasslands
Due to Homestead Act, how many acres were people given to live on for 5 years?
As much as you wanted
160 acres
200 acres
150 acres
What was not a farming challenges?
Flooding
plague of beetles
tornados
little rainfall
What was the new invention used to protect farmers lands?
Steel fences
Stone walls
Barbed wire
Electric fence
What lightweight farming tool was invented to break up soil in 1870's?
Cultivator
Nothing, they still used shovels
Tractors
Steel plows
What were boomers?
Homesteaders who claimed land before it was authorized to claim.
People hired to make railroads
Oklahoma homesteaders
planted seeds deep in ground
By 1890 the government announced the _________ no longer existed.
Cowboys
Herding cattle
Frontier
cow towns
