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Indian Wars, Cotton, Cattle, Railroad

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  • Barbed wire and windmills helped settlers move to which part of Texas?
    North
    South
    East
    West
  • Invention that separated the seeds from cotton.
    cotton bean
    cotton jet
    cotton gin
    cotton lamp
  • Which Native was a leader of his tribe and helped transition to reservation life?
    Quanah Parker
    Victoria
    Satanta
    Chief Ten Bears
  • Based on our cattle drive in class, we know that cattle drives are:
    Dangerous
    All of the above
    Exhausting
    Took a long time
  • What is agriculture?
    Railroads
    Farming
    Painting
    Construction
  • Texas is one of the major cotton producers in the United States.
    False
    True
  • A Spanish cowboy is called
    a vaca
    a conquistador
    a vaquero
  • What is open range?
    a machine that helped pick cotton
    a movie
    unfenced land
  • What is barbed wire?
    Fencing that had sharp points
    Machine that separated seeds from cotton
    Device that pumped water from underground
  • Advantages of railroads include:
    Faster
    All of the above
    Cheaper
    Safer
  • How did the slaughter of the buffalo affect the Natives?
    took away their food supply
    upset them
    forced many onto reservations
    all of the above
  • What is a bale of cotton?
    2 pounds of cotton
    a machine that picks cotton
    a machine that separates cotton from seeds
    500 pounds of cotton bundled together
  • Windmills were able to solve which problem for West Texas?
    transportation
    cattle destroying crops
    money
    dry/little water
  • What is a cattle drive?
    taking cattle to be sold by walking there
    putting cows on trains
    cars for cows
  • What is an Indian reservation?
    where the Natives went to pray
    a ranch
    a time for a dinner
    an area of land set aside for Indians, wasn't their land
  • Which country influenced ranching in Texas?
    Portugal
    England
    France
    Spain
  • The Salt Creek Raid was
    the US army attacking the Natives
    Natives attacking a group of settlers
    buffalo hunters killing buffalo
  • What is a buffalo soldier?
    all black soldiers who fought Natives
    buffalo hunters
    US cavalry
    buffaloes who hunted soldiers
  • Why was barbed wire needed?
    to hurt farming
    to keep cattle from eating crops or over graze
    to kill buffalo
    to get water
  • Most Natives wanted to go live on reservations.
    False
    True
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