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WorksheetsTexas History Cattle
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Where did the cattle trails have to lead to in order to transport the cattle to eastern markets?
a)
rivers
b)
railroad connections
c)
forts
d)
eastward direction
2.
Who promoted the railroad transport of cattle when Missouri wanted to ban the Texas longhorn from crossing its borders?
a)
Oliver Loving
b)
Joseph Glidden
c)
Richad King
d)
Joseph McCoy
3.
What happened to the Texas cattle industry between the California Gold Rush and the end of the Civil War?
a)
The cattle industry boomed in those years.
b)
The cattle industry declined in those years.
c)
Ranchers first began driving cattle to rail heads.
d)
the Spanish perfected the ranching techniques
4.
What culture started the cattle industry in Texas?
a)
American
b)
English
c)
Mexican
d)
Spanish
5.
What trail goes through our city?
a)
Chisholm
b)
Western
c)
Goodnight-Loving
d)
Shawnee
6.
What was the benefit of the Civil War to the Texas cattle industry?
a)
Texas won more land to ranch
b)
it allowed cattle to breed and grow in numbers
c)
Texas stole cattle from the North
d)
the number of cattle decreased in Texas
7.
What was the cattle drive position from the 2 cowboys in front?
a)
flank
b)
drag
c)
swing
d)
point
8.
What is the Spanish term for cowboy?
a)
vaquero
b)
ranchero
c)
charro
d)
reata
9.
True of False: Texas longhorns were raised and taken care of on small family farms.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
Who took care of the extra horses on the cattle trail?
a)
wranglers
b)
drags
c)
drovers
11.
Who moved the livestock from one place to another?
a)
drovers
b)
tasinques
c)
farmers
d)
chuck wagon boss
12.
What did Kansas do to the Texas longhorn when Texas fever returned?
a)
vaccinated them
b)
exterminated them
c)
quarrantined them
13.
Who invented barbed wire?
a)
Richard King
b)
Oliver Loving
c)
Joseph Glidden
d)
Joseph McCoy
14.
What is the name of the cattle trail from Texas to Wyoming?
a)
Chisholm Trail
b)
Goodnight-Loving Trail
c)
Shawnee Trail
d)
Western Trail
15.
Refrigerated rail cars led to an increase in the meat packing industries.
a)
True
b)
False
16.
Which invention was one of the causes of the decline of the cattle drives?
a)
refrigeration
b)
barbed wire
c)
telegraph
d)
television
17.
Ranchers raised all the following livestock in Texas except
a)
cattle
b)
goats
c)
sheep
d)
buffalo
18.
______ are shearers of sheep
a)
drover
b)
tasinques
c)
dry farmers
d)
tenant farmers
19.
What was promised in exchange for the XIT Ranch?
a)
20,000 longhorns
b)
The building of the State Capital
c)
a promise to pay the government back
d)
a promise to push the Indians out of Texas
20.
What is the largest ranch in Texas during the second half of the 1800s?
a)
XIT Ranch
b)
King Ranch
c)
JA Ranch
d)
Matador Ranch
21.
A new labor system was needed after the Civil War because slave labor was no longer available.
a)
True
b)
False
22.
______ rented land to farm.
a)
drovers
b)
tenant farmers
c)
Oliver Loving
d)
wranglers
23.
What invention aided in the national and international marketing of Texas cotton?
a)
gasoline-powered tractor
b)
steam engine
c)
telegraph
d)
air conditioning
24.
This is a new method of farming used by farmers in the Panhandle and West Texas.
a)
Dry Farming
b)
tasinques
c)
irrigation systems
d)
tenant farmers
25.
When farmers left a field fallow, it meant_____.
a)
they sold the farm
b)
they burned the field, in order to grow new crops
c)
spraying pesticides to get rid of insects
d)
left unplanted for one or more growing season
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