Cattle
Responsible for bringing the first cattle to Texas.
Who were the Spanish explorers?
Working land owned by someone else, using profit of crops to pay for the use of that land.
The positive effects of the expansion of railroads in Texas.
What is moving supplies quicker and in greater quantities, helping the Texas Economy?
Plains Indians and U.S officials met to settle issue between them after the Civil War.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
European countries who claimed land in Texas during Age of Contact.
Where is Spain and France?
Move cattle to the North where the Railroads were.
What was the Purpose of the Cattle drives?
Farmers organization thats goal was to share knowledge and set up stores.
What was The Grange?
Region of Texas that had the most railroad lines built.
What is the Coastal plains?
Comanche Chief who became a successful Cattle Rancher.
Founder of the Texas Rangers.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Used to fence animals in or out.
What is barbed wire?
Removed seeds quickly from cotton.
What was the cotton gin?
Negatives of Railroads in Texas.
What is charged high prices?
What is would only build in certain areas
What is forming trusts and monopolies?
U.S Army's strategy deal with Native American's after the civil War.
What is destroy villages, kill the buffalo and force to reservations?
Wrote the Texas Constitution of 1876.
Who was the Democratic party?
Invention of barbed wire put an end to this.
What is the cattle drives?
Reason why Texas was a good place to grow cotton.
What is dry climate?
Wrote anti-trust laws and helped regulate the railroads.
Who was James. S. Hoggs?
Changing lifestyle for Native Americans after the Civil War.
What is moved to reservations?
Women began fighting for this right during the CCR era.
What is suffrage or right to vote?
Spanish word for cowboy.
What is a Vaquero?
The practice of growing surplus crops to sell for a profit.
What is commercial agriculture?
Urbanization negatives
What is overpopulated, unclean waters, unhealthy living conditions and high crime?
Eras of Texas History in order
What is Natural Texas and its people, age of contact, Spanish colonial, Mexican National, Texas Revolution and Republic of Texas, Early Statehood, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Cattle, Cotton and Railroad.
Nickname given to the African American regiments after the Civil War by the Native Americans for bravery.
What is Buffalo Soldier?