WorksheetsCotton, Cattle, Railroads, and Western Expansion Day 5 Assignment
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the title of the passage?
a)
Texas Trailblazer
b)
Cattle Queen of Texas
c)
Queen of the West
d)
Cattle Baroness
2.
Who is described in the passage?
a)
Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Johnson
b)
Catherine 'Kate' Brown
c)
Mary 'Molly' Smith
d)
Sarah Johnson
3.
How did the person in the passage earn her title?
a)
She was the first woman to work as a cattle buyer.
b)
She was the first woman to own a ranch in Texas.
c)
She was the first woman to drive cattle under her own cattle brand.
d)
She led a cattle drive across the country.
4.
What obstacles do you think women faced on cattle drives? Why?
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5.
Label the boxes
a)B
b)C
c)D
d)A
e)E
f)F
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2
3
4
1)
2)
3)
4)
6.
After the Civil War, the _________________________________________ for beef in the northeastern United States exceeded its supply.
a)
Demand
b)
Decrease
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Profits
e)
Rio Grande Valley
7.
Texas cattle ranchers realized that they could round up cattle and send them north to make large _____________________________________________.
a)
Profits
b)
Decrease
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Rio Grande Valley
e)
13th Amendment
8.
Buffalo Soldiers were stationed along the U.S.-Mexican border after the Apache raided settlements in the _________________________________.
a)
Rio Grande Valley
b)
Decrease
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Profits
e)
13th Amendment
9.
By the late 1880s, there was a significant _____________________________ in Texas’ Native population.
a)
Decrease
b)
15th Amendment
c)
Profits
d)
Rio Grande Valley
e)
13th Amendment
10.
The _______________________________________________ abolished slavery in the United States.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
Decrease
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Profits
e)
Rio Grande Valley
11.
The ______________________________________________ gave African American men voting rights.
a)
15th Amendment
b)
Decrease
c)
Profits
d)
Rio Grande Valley
e)
13th Amendment
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