Cattle on the plains
what type of cattle gradually spread across Texas
What is a Long Horns
Most of the cattle in Colorado came from here.
What is Texas.
These crops were sold after a farmer kept enough to feed his family.
what are cashcrops
why did people living here celebrate on August 1, 1876
Colorado became a state on that day.
Since few trees grew on the plains, farmers built these types of houses.
what are sod houses
land not dived into lots
What is open range
The men who drove freight wagons pulled by oxen across the plains were called this?
what are bullwhackers.
what gave 160 free acres of land to settlers who paid a filling fee and lived on the land for five years
what was the homestead act
He was president in 1876 when Colorado became a state.
who is Ulysses S. Grant
This new type of farming used methods that included plowing the earth to a greater depth
what is dryland farming
burning a symbol into an animals hide to show ownership to is called what
what is a brand
Two reasons that open range ranching was a good business.
Cowboys worked for low wages, and the grass was free.
Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma border on April 22, 1889 or what old people might be called today
who are boomers
this document describes how a government is organized and what powers it has.
what is a constitution.
this type of building was often their first public building in a town
what is a one room schoolhouse.
by how much did cattle increase by in 1866
What is $11-$30
when thousands cattle run in public
What is a stampede
This cash crop could be sold for $100 a wagonload in the mining towns
what is hay
Who was given the right to vote in Colorado in 1876
Only men over age twenty-one could vote.
This type of wheat grew well in the winter
what is sorghum or winter wheat
a town located near railroads to market and ship cattle
This roundup was done to find and brand new calves.
What is the spring roundup.
Name four crops that were grown in the river valleys.
what are potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, onions, eggplants, beets, peas, wheat, corn, fruit. and beans.
the colorado constitution established the General Assembly which is divided into which two parts?
what are the Senate and a House of Representatives.
these types of towns were settled by groups of people who came to Colorado together.
what are colony towns