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WorksheetsCattle Boom in Texas
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
Why were cattle branded or marked?
Cattle were branded or marked to show which ones were sick with Texas fever, a deadly bovine disease.
Cattle were branded or marked to show which rancher owned it.
Cattle were branded or marked to show which herd it belonged to.
Cattle were branded or marked so the cowboys knew the cows’ names
This person built the largest cattle ranch in the United States.
Lizzy Johnson
Richard King
William B Travis
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the Cattle Trail named after Charles Goodnight
Goodnight Loving Trail
Chisholm Loving Trail
Charles Loving Trail
Chisholm Trail
Who was responsible for inventing the the object in the image above?
Charles Goodnight
Joseph Glidden
Sam Houston
Patillo Higgins
What is Lizzie Johnson known for?
The first Texas cattle driver
Driving cattle up the chisholm trail
Building Railroads
Discovering Oil
Larger breeds bred with smaller Spanish cattle were known as _______.
cows
Texas cows
Texas longhorns
Texas cattle
(a) are ranch workers that had many difficult duties.
-Ranchers
-Cowhands
-Cattlemen
How did ranchers move their cattle?
by railroad
by trucks
by wagon
by foot
Who developed the Chisholm trail?
Margaret Borland
Charles Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm
Elizabeth Johnso
The number of longhorn cattle has grown to about _______ by the time the Civil War ended.
five million
fifty million
fifteen million
five billion
