Cowboys
The Frontier
Technology
Farming
Trains
100
What is a cowboy?
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks
100
What is the Frontier
A peice of land that has few people and few settlements.
100
barbed Wire
100
What is a fancy word for watering your plants? It starts with an A.
Agriculture
100
What did early Trains Run on ?
Coal
200
Who where the first Cowboys?
The Native Americas
The Spanish who first got to Texas
200
Who was mostly living in the Frontiers?
TheNative Americans
200
What technology was used to get water from the underground for people and animals to drink out of?
A windMIll
200
What plant was grown in Texas that Made them alot $$$$
Cotton
200
Name three things trains helped move?
People
Cows
Foods
Goods
300
What does the word Vaquero Mean?Where did the word come from?
It means to be a cowboy it came from the Mexico
300
Why was there a frontier war?
The texans wanted to take the land away from the indians.
300
What technology helped bring Cattle drives to and end?
The Rail Roads
300
How does a Mechanical Reaper help make farming easier?
reduced farm labor needs and increased production of wheat and other grains
300
what is the end a train called?
caboose
400
Name three things that a cowboy needed to have with him on the trails?
1. A gun
2. A rope
3. A hat
Food
Boots
400
Name one event that lead to increased fighting durring the Frontier Wars?
salt creek massacre
400
What uses Mores Code to send messages?
The telegraph
400
What does a steel Plow Do?
Harder steel was able to break through the tough topsoil
400
Who built the transcontinental Rail Road
Native AMericans,Africans AMericsns, Chinese Immigrants
500
What are the two trails Cowboys used to heard Cattle to norther parts of America?
The goodnight loving trial
The Chisholm
500
What is the idea called that America should be from sea to shinning sea?
Manifest Destiny
500
What is a SOD House
Sod is the top layer of Soil
Settlers used this to build house out of SOD and wood Beams
500
What is anothe Cash Crop
Tabacoo
Indigo
Cotton
500
whta is the name of the RailRoad that connected West Coast AMerica to East Coast America?
The Transcontinental Rail Road