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WorksheetsFrontier, Cattle, Cotton & Railroads
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Could fire a bow rapidly, knew the land, were skilled warriors describes which group?
Indians
US Army
Buffalo Soldiers
Cattle Drovers
An agreement between the Kiowa, Comanche and US to move the Indians onto reservations to create peace on the frontier.
Treaty of Adobe Walls
Treaty of Palo Duro Canyon
Sherman's Treaty
Treaty of Medicine Lodge
To defeat the Indians, I decided to...
Write a Treaty
Destroy the Buffalo
Attack Adobe Walls
Start the Fence Cutting Wars
Indians joined together at Adobe Walls because this leader was told they would be victorious by a shaman.
Satanta
Geronimo
Quanah Parker
Sitting Bull
Though named by the Indians for their skill, this name eventually referred to all black soldiers
Buffalo Soldiers
Freedmen
Ghost Warriors
Shadow Soldiers
Great Western, Chisholm, Goodnight-Loving
Famous Frontier Hotels
Famous Cattle Drives
Major Battles of the Red River Campaign
Reservations in the Panhandle
Which of these were hazards faced by cowboys on the cattle trails? (Choose all that apply)
Snakes
Weather
River Crossings
Indian Attacks
Stampedes
Charles Goodnight invented which of the following?
Barbed Wire
Cattle Drives
Chuck Wagon
Ranching
Why was barbed wire a significant invention?
It stopped the buffalo
It increased the need for railroads
It helped control cattle along the trails
It changed the open range forever
Which of the following was NOT a successful ranch in Texas?
King
Lazy D
XIT
JA
Public land owned by the state government, often used for cattle grazing
Open Range
Reservations
Cattle Ranches
Rancheros
Drives
The movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market
The forced removal of the Indians to reservations
How you get from one place to another
The people who worked the cattle along the trail
Ranchero
Major Texas river
Spanish for "cowboy"
Classic Ford car
Spanish word for "rancher"
A person who moves livestock overland to market
Drover
Drives
Ranchero
Vaquero
A place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere
Barbed wire
Stockyard
Ranchero
Drives
Wrangler
Western jeans
A person who steals cattle
Ranch hand who takes care of horses
A person who moves livestock overland to market
Quarantine
deadly disease spread by ticks from longhorn cattle
new medicine on the frontier that saved lives
to isolate or separate to prevent the spread of disease
to force someone to stay away
A serious crime that usually results in a prison sentence is a felony.
True
False
Which of the following originally came from Spain?
Buffalo
Chuck wagons
Barbed wire
Mustangs
Which of these were a purpose of a drift fence? (Choose all that apply)
Mark the limits of a rancher's land
Prevent wild cattle from getting on the land
Keep livestock on the land
To stop the Fence Cutting Wars
Provide a marker for the cattle drives to follow
Which of these is an enclosure?
Texas Fever was bad because...
it was a deadly disease that killed many Texans on the frontier
it killed off the buffalo
it killed off the longhorns
it infected cattle along the trails and caused problems with other ranchers
Requiring gates every 3 miles and making it a felony to cut a fence helped to...
escalate the Fence Cutting Wars
end the Fence Cutting Wars
end the cattle drives
increase the number of buffalo
I was in charge of rounding up the Native Americans not living on reservations in Texas during the late 1800's.
This helped to end the Red River Campaign.
The Fence Cutting Wars
The Expansion of the Railroad
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
Attack on Adobe Walls
I'm in charge of the cattle drive, the other riders all follow me.
Trail Boss
Drover
Vaquero
Ranchero
Which region of Texas is shown in RED?
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Central Plains
Coastal Plains
Which region of Texas is shown in BLUE?
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Central Plains
Coastal Plains
Which region of Texas is shown in YELLOW?
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Central Plains
Coastal Plains
Which region of Texas is shown in GREEN?
Mountains and Basins
Great Plains
Central Plains
Coastal Plains
I was President during the time of the Indian Wars along the frontier.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
William T. Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
