Cattle
Mixed Spanish and English cattle
What is a Longhorn?
Caused the Range Wars in Texas
What is ranchers fencing land with barbed wire?
Railroads were built to -
What is transporting products to a market?
American Indian tribes after the Civil War moved to these
What are reservations?
Nickname for oil
What is black gold?
The word vaquero refers to a -
What is a cowboy?
Cotton is mostly grown in this region.
What is the Coastal Plains?
This person was a former Texas governor, I set up the Texas Railroad Commission, and protected citizens from unfair business practices.
Who is James Hogg?
This nickname was given to the African American troops that helped to control Native Americans in the West after the Civil War.
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
What is a monopoly?
Three constant challenges cowboys faced on cattle drives.
What are stampedes, disease, rustlers... ETC
Leader of the cattle drive
What is the trail boss?
This mode of transportation assisted cattle ranchers in transporting their cattle to markets.
Railroads
If Indians moved to the area in Oklahoma, the US would give them food, money, and farming supplies
What is the treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867?
Women suffrage wanted this
What is expansion of political rights for all genders?
A group that influenced the ranching culture in Texas?
What are the Spanish?
The use of barbed wire on the frontier ended this
What is the open range?
Started and rapidly grew along the railroad lines
I was the son of an American woman captured by the Comanches, I was the last Chief of the Comanches. I eventually assimilated into American culture.
Who is Quanah Parker?
Covered employees rights, child labor laws and safer working conditions
What is labor reform?
How did the end of the Civil War affect the cattle industry?
The demand for beef in the East made cattle ranching more profitable.
The state where most cattle drives ended
What is Kansas?
This transportation was used by the cook of the cattle trails.
What is a chuck wagon?
Most of the reservations are located here
What is Oklahoma?
Time period that most accurately describes when the Progressive Movement occurred?
What is the 1890's-1920's?