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Frontier, Cattle, Cotton & Railroads

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Could fire a bow rapidly, knew the land, were skilled warriors describes which group?

a)

Indians

b)

US Army

c)

Buffalo Soldiers

d)

Cattle Drovers

2.

An agreement between the Kiowa, Comanche and US to move the Indians onto reservations to create peace on the frontier.

a)

Treaty of Adobe Walls

b)

Treaty of Palo Duro Canyon

c)

Sherman's Treaty

d)

Treaty of Medicine Lodge

3.

To defeat the Indians, I decided to...

a)

Write a Treaty

b)

Destroy the Buffalo

c)

Attack Adobe Walls

d)

Start the Fence Cutting Wars

4.

Indians joined together at Adobe Walls because this leader was told they would be victorious by a shaman.

a)

Satanta

b)

Geronimo

c)

Quanah Parker

d)

Sitting Bull

5.

Though named by the Indians for their skill, this name eventually referred to all black soldiers

a)

Buffalo Soldiers

b)

Freedmen

c)

Ghost Warriors

d)

Shadow Soldiers

6.

Great Western, Chisholm, Goodnight-Loving

a)

Famous Frontier Hotels

b)

Famous Cattle Drives

c)

Major Battles of the Red River Campaign

d)

Reservations in the Panhandle

7.

Which of these were hazards faced by cowboys on the cattle trails? (Choose all that apply)

a)

Snakes

b)

Weather

c)

River Crossings

d)

Indian Attacks

e)

Stampedes

8.

Charles Goodnight invented which of the following?

a)

Barbed Wire

b)

Cattle Drives

c)

Chuck Wagon

d)

Ranching

9.

Why was barbed wire a significant invention?

a)

It stopped the buffalo

b)

It increased the need for railroads

c)

It helped control cattle along the trails

d)

It changed the open range forever

10.

Which of the following was NOT a successful ranch in Texas?

a)

King

b)

Lazy D

c)

XIT

d)

JA

11.

Public land owned by the state government, often used for cattle grazing

a)

Open Range

b)

Reservations

c)

Cattle Ranches

d)

Rancheros

12.

Drives

a)

The movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market

b)

The forced removal of the Indians to reservations

c)

How you get from one place to another

d)

The people who worked the cattle along the trail

13.

Ranchero

a)

Major Texas river

b)

Spanish for "cowboy"

c)

Classic Ford car

d)

Spanish word for "rancher"

14.

A person who moves livestock overland to market

a)

Drover

b)

Drives

c)

Ranchero

d)

Vaquero

15.

A place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere

a)

Barbed wire

b)

Stockyard

c)

Ranchero

d)

Drives

16.

Wrangler

a)

Western jeans

b)

A person who steals cattle

c)

Ranch hand who takes care of horses

d)

A person who moves livestock overland to market

17.

Quarantine

a)

deadly disease spread by ticks from longhorn cattle

b)

new medicine on the frontier that saved lives

c)

to isolate or separate to prevent the spread of disease

d)

to force someone to stay away

18.

A serious crime that usually results in a prison sentence is a felony.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Which of the following originally came from Spain?

a)

Buffalo

b)

Chuck wagons

c)

Barbed wire

d)

Mustangs

20.

Which of these were a purpose of a drift fence? (Choose all that apply)

a)

Mark the limits of a rancher's land

b)

Prevent wild cattle from getting on the land

c)

Keep livestock on the land

d)

To stop the Fence Cutting Wars

e)

Provide a marker for the cattle drives to follow

21.

Which of these is an enclosure?

a)
b)
c)
d)
22.

Texas Fever was bad because...

a)

it was a deadly disease that killed many Texans on the frontier

b)

it killed off the buffalo

c)

it killed off the longhorns

d)

it infected cattle along the trails and caused problems with other ranchers

23.

Requiring gates every 3 miles and making it a felony to cut a fence helped to...

a)

escalate the Fence Cutting Wars

b)

end the Fence Cutting Wars

c)

end the cattle drives

d)

increase the number of buffalo

24.

I was in charge of rounding up the Native Americans not living on reservations in Texas during the late 1800's.

a)
b)
c)
d)
25.

This helped to end the Red River Campaign.

a)

The Fence Cutting Wars

b)

The Expansion of the Railroad

c)

Battle of Palo Duro Canyon

d)

Attack on Adobe Walls

26.

I'm in charge of the cattle drive, the other riders all follow me.

a)

Trail Boss

b)

Drover

c)

Vaquero

d)

Ranchero

27.

Which region of Texas is shown in RED?

a)

Mountains and Basins

b)

Great Plains

c)

Central Plains

d)

Coastal Plains

28.

Which region of Texas is shown in BLUE?

a)

Mountains and Basins

b)

Great Plains

c)

Central Plains

d)

Coastal Plains

29.

Which region of Texas is shown in YELLOW?

a)

Mountains and Basins

b)

Great Plains

c)

Central Plains

d)

Coastal Plains

30.

Which region of Texas is shown in GREEN?

a)

Mountains and Basins

b)

Great Plains

c)

Central Plains

d)

Coastal Plains

31.

I was President during the time of the Indian Wars along the frontier.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

William T. Sherman

d)

Ulysses S. Grant