Cattle Ranch
How much were cows worth in Texas in the 1880s?
$3 or $4
What year did Texas join the Confederacy?
1863
technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner
Name of African American Soldiers who served on the western frontier
Buffalo Soldiers
Who brought cattle to Texas?
The Spanish
What year did Texas adapt its Constitution?
1876
Define tenant farmer
farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in either cash or in crops
political document that established new borders between Mexico and the United States, including Texas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is a cattle drive?
the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another
1867
Define sharecropper
a farmer who receives seeds, tools, living quarters, and food in exchange for their work
The following describes what?
- Texas secedes from the Union
- Texas faces hardships at home
- John Bell Hood and Hood's Texas Brigade
Texas in the American Civil War
Why did Texans participate in cattle drives?
Cattle was worth 10x more in the north and the east.
When did the Spanish bring cattle to Texas?
1500s
Provided fast and reliable transport, increased ranching and farming, delivered cattle to different markets
Railroads
the event responsible for the change in Texas’s boundary after the U.S.-Mexican War
the Compromise of 1850
List 2 reasons for westward expansion
Growth of railroads
Land available for ranching and farming
When were Jim Crow laws adopted?
Between 1910 and the 1920s
James S. Hogg
- Governor of Texas from 1891 to 1895
- Established the Texas Railroad Commission
What was the role of slavery in the Civil War? (list two roles)
1. Need for labor to produce cotton
2. Southern economy depended on cotton
3. High percentage of farmland in the South