Cowboys
Boys who needed a few extra bucks and herded cattle for ranchers.
Who were the cowboys?
Invented the steam locomotive.
Who was George Stephenson?
This machine made planting and digging seeds much easier.
What is a seed drill?
A herd of cows being moved to a trading post or to find new pasture.
What is a cattle drive?
He invented the seed drill and was English.
Who was Jethro Tull?
A mexican cowhand.
What is a Vaquero?
Raising of animals or the growing of crops to obtain food for primary consumption by the farm family or for sale of the farm
What is agriculture
This war made beef much more valuable and forced cowboys to work harder.
What is the Civil War?
This machine made it easier to separate cotton from the plant. It also helped to abolish slave labor.
What is a cotton Gin
This man created the reaping wheel, an invention that made harvesting much easier.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
A town that was settled by cowboys on the new Western Frontier.
What were the frontier towns?
This machine made harvesting wheat much easier. Consisted of a rotating wheel that made circular cuts.
What is a reaping wheel?
This ancient civilization invented irrigation. This land was in between 2 rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Wire that is tied together that is sharp and can cut you.
What is barbed wire?
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A system of canals and small waterways used on farms to help to spread out water.
What is irrigation?
Took over plans in his head to help America.
Samuel Slater.