Cattle
Put a Bird on it
100
Men who drove the longhorn cattle for hard work and little pay.
Who are cowboys?
100
The act that allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres on the condition that he/she lived on the land for five years and paid a $30.00 fee.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862.
200
Conditions which made being a cowboy dangerous.
What are indian attacks, stampedes, disease, and accidents with no medical treatment?
200
Land that was bad for farming but good for grazing.
What is the prairie?
300
Illness that the longhorns brought to the eastern cattle causing them to die.
What is Tick-borne disease?
300
The year in which New Mexico won independence from Spain.
What is 1821?
400
The place where it became illegal to move Longhorn Cattle across this quarantine line.
What is south of Abilene, Kansas?
400
Drought resistant plants.
What is sorghum and wheat?
500
The time period in which 4,000,000 head of Longhorn were driven north.
What is 1866-1888?
500
The man that developed a milling process that increased the demand for grain.
Who is John S. Pillsbury?
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