Frontier Wars
The Native Americans who signed the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek agreed to do this.
What is live on reservations?
This protected livestock from predators, protected crops from being eaten by cattle, and prevented squatters from settling on ranch land.
What is barbed wire?
The social impact of this industry is:
Many Mexican-Americans and African-Americans joined the industry, Many Spanish words were added to the English language, and Women became involved.
What is the Cattle Industry?
This was the lasting impact of the Galveston Hurricane on the city's economy?
What is The city recovered but never was able to restore its role as a leading port?
The reason jobs in banking, insurance, retailing, and business were available in the 1900s.
What is Excellent rail connections?
African American troops who were skilled at fighting Native Americans were called ____
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Trail drivers were so successful that the supply of cattle exceeded the demand, having this effect on the price of cattle.
What is the price of cattle went down?
The effect of the Civil War on the Texas cattle industry.
What is a cattle boom?
The 2 measures Galveston took to prevent future hurricane devastation.
What is build a sea wall and raise the city
Double Jeopardy
The effects of the oil industry on the development of Texas. (Name at least 2)
What are Increased Texas populations, Created new jobs, and, Stimulated other industries
This was a source of conflict in Texas after the Civil War
What are Native American raids?
and also Disputes over land
A growing need for wool caused this type of ranching to increase after the Civil War.
What is sheep ranching?
The expansion of the railroads had this effect on the population of Texas.
What is The population became more diverse as immigrant workers arrived to build the railroads.
The reason the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was especially devastating.
What is there was little advance warning of the hurricane with no time for preparations?
Oil discoveries had this direct benefit on Lumber business.
What is lumber was needed to build derricks?
This event caused General William T. Sherman to send large squads of U.S. soldiers to attack Comanche and Kiowa villages
What is Satanta’s raid at Salt Creek?
What people did when they did not own any land.
What is tenant farming or sharecroppers?
The reason Texans wanted railroads in their state.
What is shipping goods was slow and expensive?
Also Machinery could be shipped easily to making harvesting crops easier
Farmers could easily ship their surplus to market
Existing roads and rivers provided inadequate and slow transportation for goods
The industry most affected by the hurricanes.
What is shipping?
This industry in Texas resulted in
Economic boom in west Texas
Development of highway systems
Led to greater levels of industrialization
What is oil industry?
The main outcome of the Frontier Wars.
What is Anglo settlers forced American Indians from the land?
Low prices, Barbed wire fences, and Railroads put an end to this.
What are Cattle Drives?
Term for things that pulled immigrants to Texas.
What are Pull factors?
Random Question and Double Jeopardy
The place Texas first experienced a “gusher”.
Bonus: The first place in Texas oil was discovered.
What is Spindletop Hill, Beaumont?
Bonus: Corsicana
Significant change in technological innovation due to oil industry.
What is transportation (or automobiles/cars)?