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Cattle Boom in Texas

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why were cattle branded or marked?

a)

Cattle were branded or marked to show which ones were sick with Texas fever, a deadly bovine disease.

b)

Cattle were branded or marked to show which rancher owned it.

c)

Cattle were branded or marked to show which herd it belonged to.

d)

Cattle were branded or marked so the cowboys knew the cows’ names

2.

This person built the largest cattle ranch in the United States.

a)

Lizzy Johnson

b)

Richard King

c)

William B Travis

d)

Abraham Lincoln

3.

What was the name of the Cattle Trail named after Charles Goodnight

a)

Goodnight Loving Trail

b)

Chisholm Loving Trail

c)

Charles Loving Trail

d)

Chisholm Trail

4.

Who was responsible for inventing the the object in the image above?

a)

Charles Goodnight

b)

Joseph Glidden

c)

Sam Houston

d)

Patillo Higgins

5.

What is Lizzie Johnson known for?

a)

The first Texas cattle driver

b)

Driving cattle up the chisholm trail

c)

Building Railroads

d)

Discovering Oil

6.

Larger breeds bred with smaller Spanish cattle were known as _______.

a)

cows

b)

Texas cows

c)

Texas longhorns

d)

Texas cattle

7.

(a)   are ranch workers that had many difficult duties.

-Ranchers

-Cowhands

-Cattlemen

8.

How did ranchers move their cattle?

a)

by railroad

b)

by trucks

c)

by wagon

d)

by foot

9.

Who developed the Chisholm trail?

a)

Margaret Borland

b)

Charles Chisholm

c)

Jesse Chisholm

d)

Elizabeth Johnso

10.

The number of longhorn cattle has grown to about _______ by the time the Civil War ended.

a)

five million

b)

fifty million

c)

fifteen million

d)

five billion