WorksheetsCotton, Cattle, Railroads, and Western Expansion Day 8 Assignment
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the title of the reading selection?
a)
Sully's Legacy
b)
Traditions of Texas A&M
c)
Coins for Luck
d)
Pennies on Sully
2.
What university did Sul Ross help keep open?
a)
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
b)
Rice University
c)
Texas A&M University
d)
University of Texas
3.
How did Sul Ross help Texas as governor?
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4.
SCR: How did new farm technology help farmers AND what impact did these technological innovations have on the Texas economy?
4 lines
5.
Governor ____________________________________________ worked to protect Texans from unfair practices by railroad corporations.
a)
James Hogg
b)
Windmills
c)
Slavery
d)
Joseph Glidden
e)
Sharecropping
6.
The ______________________________________________ was built to connect the east and west coast markets of the United States.
a)
Transcontinental Railroad
b)
Windmills
c)
James Hogg
d)
Slavery
e)
Joseph Glidden
7.
_________________________________ invented barbed wire, which was used to keep animals out of certain areas.
a)
Joseph Glidden
b)
Windmills
c)
James Hogg
d)
Slavery
e)
Sharecropping
8.
__________________________________ provided water access to livestock and crops in dry areas.
a)
Windmills
b)
James Hogg
c)
Slavery
d)
Joseph Glidden
e)
Sharecropping
9.
________________________________ was a farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt.
a)
Sharecropping
b)
Windmills
c)
James Hogg
d)
Slavery
e)
Joseph Glidden
10.
_________________________________ was a heavily debated issue prior to the Civil War.
a)
Slavery
b)
Windmills
c)
James Hogg
d)
Joseph Glidden
e)
Sharecropping
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