Convict Leasing
What is convict Leasing? (don't answer like in traditional Jeopardy)
The selling of mostly black people to make them work for companies in factories, plantations, etc.
What is sharecropping? (don't answer traditionally)
A form of agriculture that has a laborer farming a piece of land for the owner.
A cowboys most important thing.
What is a saddle?
One of the most famous routes for cattle to pass.
What was the Chisholm Trail?
What did barbed wire signify? (don't answer traditionally)
The first man-made barriers.
What was the reason prisons started selling their prisoners? (don't answer traditionally)
The prisons didn't have enough room for them, as a lot more black men started going to jail after the Civil War.
This was the time when sharecropping was at its peak.
What is the Great Depression?
From what year to what year was the era that cowboys were at their peak? (Just name the years, don't answer like how you normally would in Jeopardy)
1865-1885
Who was Joseph McCoy? (don't answer traditionally)
He was a cattle dealer from Illinois and decided that Abilene, Kansas would make a good point for traveling east.
How did barbed wire affect the Great Plains Natives? (don't answer traditionally)
It removed their free will to move wherever they want.
How are black codes related to convict leasing? (you already know that you're not supposed to answer traditionally)
Black codes were the reason so many black people went to jail, which made prisons start selling their prisoners.
What do sharecroppers get in return of working? (don't answer traditionally)
A home, seed, fertilizer, and tools.
Why did cowboys wear the hats they wore? (list four reasons)
Kept Precipitation off, kept sunlight off, kept them cool, used it to signal other cowboys, fan a fire, scoop up water from a stream.
The four most prominent cities to rise in response to the cattle boom.
What is Wichita, Dodge City, Ells-worth, and Caldwell?
What did the Homestead Acts encourage? (don't answer traditionally)
It encouraged westward expansion and creation of small family farms that needed barbed wire.
Two of the earliest people to use convict leasing.
Who were Edward Cunningham and Little-berry Ellis?
When did sharecropping start to fall? (don't answer traditionally)
After World War 2.
What were chaps used for? (don't answer like how you would in normal Jeopardy)
Protected cowboys from thorny bushes and cacti.
What was Dodge City known for? (don't answer traditionally)
It was known for being a gambling, saloon-based, frontier justice-ruled society.
The person to officially invent barbed wire.
Who was Joseph Farwell Glidden?
The person who wants the history of black labor (convict leasing) to be remembered.
Who is Reginald Moore?
This event had hundreds of thousands of sharecroppers leaving their work in the south and going up north.
What is the Great Migration?
The two types of horses that cowboys commonly rode.
What are mustangs and broncos?
What state was cattle mostly driven to? (don't answer traditionally)
Kansas.
The date that barbed wire was officially patented.
When was November 24, 1874?