History M.C.
What country did cattle come to Texas from?
A. England
B. Spain
C. Mexico
B. Spain
Defined by their custom boots, large hats, tools, and saddles,
What is a cowboy?
This person is famous for his involvement in the violent Lincoln County War. Has been linked to nine murders. Their nickname was "The Kid"
Who is Billy The Kid
This act encouraged people to move westward by giving 160 acres to citizens and giving them irrigable land to grow crops on.
What is the Homestead Act?
System in which the land owner allows a person to use land in exchange for a share of the crop yeild.
What is sharecropping?
The majority of the land in the Old West came from what purchase?
A. West Purchase
B. Mississippi Purchase
C. Louisiana Purchase
C. Louisiana Purchase
A combination of American, Spanish, and Mexican cultures.
What is cowboy culture?
One of the most well known women of the Wild West being a sharpshooter and stage performer. In 1885, she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows.
Who is Pheobe Anne Oakley or Annie Oakley
President Ulysses Grant attempted to end the Indian War by sending Christian missionaries to supervise the Indian reserves.
What is the Peace Policy?
Over-hunting this animal by Indians and white pioneers to use the animal for different resources caused there to be a demise in the population.
What is buffalo?
What were the two major crops in the Wild West?
A. Cotton and Wheat
B. Tobacco and Indigo
C. Cotton and Tobacco
C. Cotton and Tobacco
This industry caused a massive boom in western agriculture having over 5 million head in it
What is cattle-ranching?
This general did not listen to scouts and decided to split his troops into three groups to attack. As a result, his men were outnumbered and lost the battle.
Who is General George Armstrong Custer?
This act in 1877 promoted development of arid and semiarid public land in the West.
What was the Desert Land Act?
This was a result of farmers planting the same crop that got them the most amount of money year after year.
What is soil deficiencies?
A quarter of the cowboys in the Wild West were?
A. Wealthy white land owners
B. Poor first generation immigrants
C. Black
C. Black
In Wild West culture, families lived far from each other and women took care of the household, what caused the most deaths in women?
A. Suicide
B. Starvation
C. Burglaries gone wrong
A. Suicide
This man wrote the Frontier Thesis. Stating that America was unique and settling the frontier was very impactful for the success of America.
Who is Fredrick Jackson Turner?
This act in 1902 funded irrigation projects to take place in the West United States to irrigate arid land for farming.
What is the Reclamation Act?
Farmers created this system with store owners as an agreement to give part of their crop to the owner in exchange for farm equipment.
What is croplien?
What ended open-range cattle drives?
A. Trespassing laws
B. Barbed wire
C. Electric fences
B. Barbed wire
The informal yet agreed upon laws that shaped cowboy culture.
What is the Code of the West?
This man famous for his role in tobacco, was very good at advertising his product and underselling his product against competitors.
Who is Buck Duke.?
This act divided Indian reservations and gave land to individual households. The profit was given to help civilize Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
The invention of this machine allowed for farming to occur in the plains where the soil was hard and unable to grow crops.
What is the steel plow?