Cattle Kingdom
This is the name for a design burned into a cow’s hide to show who owns it.
What is a Brand
This is the "precious" nickname given to oil.
What is "Black Gold"?
After the civil war, what are the 3 major industries that helped Texans make money?
What is oil industry, railroad industry, and cattle industry?
This is the term for the amount of a product that is available to buy.
What is Supply?
This word describes a time of rapid economic growth and success.
What is a boom?
This invention used twisted wire to end the "open range."
What is barbed wire?
This was the site or city of the massive oil discovery near Beaumont in 1901.
What is Spindletop?
This is a place where two or more railroad lines meet.
What is a junction?
This is the term for how much of a product people actually want to buy.
What is Demand?
This is a town that grows very quickly when a new industry (like oil) starts nearby
What is a boomtown?
He was the famous rancher who established the JA Ranch in the Panhandle.
Who is Charles Goodnight?
This is the name for a factory where raw oil is cleaned and turned into products.
What is a oil refinery?
In this type of production, a product moves along a line while workers stay in one place.
What is an assembly line?
In this economic system, people are free to choose what to help produce and buy.
What is a Free Enterprise system?
Name one reason people moved to Texas cities besides looking for a job.
Better schools, hospitals, or cultural opportunities.
This female rancher was the first to have her own brand, the "Lonesome L."
Who is Lizzie Johnson?
This gas is often found near oil deposits and became a major Texas industry.
What is natural gas?
This is the invention called that is the process of sealing food in metal containers to make it last longer.
What is canning?
If the supply of beef is very high but the demand is low, does the price go UP or DOWN?
What is Down?
Did people live near railroads or away from them? Why?
What is people wanted to live near railroads to travel far distances quicker and get jobs.
Richard King created this specific breed of cattle because they could survive the Texas heat. What is that breed called?
What is Santa Gertrudis?
After oil was discovered at Spindletop, why did thousands of people move there?
What is they were looking for jobs and money involving the oil industry?
True or False: Before railroads, it was faster and cheaper to move goods across Texas.
False (Railroads made it much faster and cheaper).
After the Civil War, the demand for Texas cattle was highest in this part of the country.
What is the North (or Northeast)?
True or False: When the oil industry grew, it caused other businesses like lumber and shipping to grow too.
What is True?