Cattle
This natural resource found underground allowed farmers and ranchers to settled where they previously could not.
What is water?
What happened to Texas' Population because many people moved to Texas in the years following the Civil War.
What is the population of Texas increased?
A person who comes from another country to settle, and, in this case, help build the railroad.
What is an immigrant?
This was the Native American's main source of food.
What is the buffalo?
This invention helped in the open range by allowing farmers and ranchers to build fences.
What is barbwire?
This is the era during which cattle drives were most prominent.
1860-1900
Because of railroads, Texans were able to shift from subsistence agriculture to this.
What is commercial agriculture?
Quanah Parker's father.
Who is Chief Peta Nocona?
These helped irrigate crops in dry, arid conditions.
What are windmills?
This cattle trail was a pathway from Texas to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
What technological innovation led to thousands of people being able to migrate to the west much more quickly, cheaply, and comfortably.
What are trains?
Railroads in Texas eventually put an end to these long trips north.
What are cattle drives?
Quanah Parker's mother.
Who is Cynthia Ann Parker?
This invention made cattle drives unnecessary, made travel easier and allowed Texas to shift from subsistence agriculture to commercial agriculture.
What are railroads?
Who brought cattle to Texas in the 1500s?
Who are the Spanish?
Range wars were fights between farmers and ranchers over the use of water, barbwire and the raising of this type of animal?
What are Cattle?
This north Texas city was a final stop on the cattle drives on their way to Kansas.
What is Fort Worth?
The creation of barbwire helped out which type of profession in Texas the most?
What are farmers and ranchers?
Which part of the United States demanded beef and created a market in Texas to supply it?
What is the Northeastern United States?
The Texas economy grew because they were able to ship products and beef to the rest of the United States more easily using this.
What is the railroads and trains?
One of the railroad companies that brought the first railroads to Texas.
What is Houston and Central, Texas and Pacific or International-Great Northern.
Because Texas farmers and ranchers wanted their land, Native Americans were moved to these.
What are reservations?
This technology brought thousands of immigrants to Texas.
What are railroads?