WorksheetsCattle-Cotton-Oil Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
The modern day "cowboy's" origin is derived from which country?
United States
Spain
Germany
Brazil
Which was most instrumental in the growth of the cattle trails?
Newly freed slaves becoming ranchers
The use of railroads
The removal of the Comanche to the reservation
The use of windmills and barbed wire
Which trail was the famous Chisolm Trail?
The state capitol in Austin was built in exchange for the land that would become:
The King Ranch
The JA Ranch
The Boland Ranch
The XIT Ranch
Which was true about the Goodnight-Loving Trail?
It ran from Central Texas straight to Dodge City, Kansas
It went out of the way to avoid Indian territory and ended in Wyoming
It started in Fort Worth and ended in Omaha, NE
It ran the length of Texas from the Rio Grande all the way to Kansas
"Texas Fever" refers to:
A cattle disease
The rush to buy land in West Texas
The hot conditions Cowboys had to work in
Market prices for Texas cattle
On average, tenant farmers kept about (a) of their crop and gave (b) to the land owner.
Which items kept sharecroppers trapped in poverty (or unable to turn a good profit to buy their own land)?
Boll Weevils
Drought
Low Demand for cotton
High prices for cotton
What is the purpose of a windmill?
To show ownership of a large tract of land
To warn of upcoming weather events
To tap into aquifers for irrigation
To process and grind cotton seeds
Oil had already been discovered and was being refined in this Texas city prior to 1901.
Beaumont
Odessa
Longview
Corsicana
The gusher at Spindletop was located just south of which city?
Austin
New Orleans
Lubbock
Beaumont
While it was (a) who speculated that oil was under the salt dome at Spindletop, it was (b) who drilled and struck oil.
Up until 1850, what was used for lighting lamps?
Kerosene
Crude Oil
Whale Oil
Cottonseed Oil
The first oil fields and boom towns sprung up in:
New York
Louisiana
Texas
Pennsylvania
Before switching to oil, trains mostly ran on:
Electricity
Coal
Water pumps
Burning lumber
