Ranching
This group of people brought the first cattle to Texas.
Who are the European explorers?
How did the arrival of the railroads cause new towns to spring up in Texas?
People build new towns and businesses at railroad junctions where travelers would need food and accommodation services.
This is a period of rapid economic growth in an area.
What is a boom?
This is a person or company that buys goods or uses services.
What is a consumer?
Barbed wire fences allowed farmers to fence off their fields protecting their crops and keeping their herds of cattle separated from common cattle, but these fences cut off which group of animals from sources of water?
What is cattle on the open range?
Why did ranchers and cowhands use cattle drives to send their cattle to the northern states?
They could get a better price for the cattle up north where there was a great demand for meat products such as beef.
This group of people came to Texas specifically to build the railroads.
Who are Chinese workers?
This is a grassy plain without fences used to graze animals such as buffalo and cattle.
What is the OPEN RANGE?
This is a person or company that makes and sells goods & services.
What is a producer?
Why did ranchers want to sell their cattle to people in the northern states?
They could sell them for more money up north.
This was the system used by ranchers to gather their cattle where they were grazing on the open range
What is a roundup?
Building this caused the population of Texas to explode with new settlers and businesses moving into the state more easily.
What is the railroad?
This is a steam engine that pulled trains into Texas.
What is a locomotive?
When there is a shortage of video game consoles, the price of the video game consoles will ____.
- rise or become more expensive?
How did the spread of railroads affect the population of Texas?
The railroads made it easy for many new settlers to come to Texas, so the population of Texas increased.
How did ranchers build their herds to develop the Texas cattle industry?
Some settlers brought cattle to Texas with them when they moved, others caught wild cattle and added them to their herds.
This group of people was negatively impacted by the arrival of the railroads because train tracks cut through their land.
Who are Native Americans?
This is an economic system in which people are free to buy and sell goods or services with little control from the government.
What is FREE ENTERPRISE?
When a company made more umbrellas than people want to buy, the price of the umbrellas will _______.
- will fall, or become less expensive.
What caused the growth of the shipping industry in Galveston?
The arrival of the railroads made it easy to ship goods to and from the coast around Texas and the rest of the world.
This invention brought an end to the open ranges of Texas
What is barbed wire fencing?
This is a place where rail lines meet - where cowhands would drive their cattle and load them onto trains travelling to the northern states.
What is a junction?
This is a design burned into the hide of a cow to identify to which ranch it belongs.
What is a brand?
Farmers grow more apples than people want to buy. The price of apples will _____________.
- FALL, or become less expensive.
How did Richard King affect the ranch industry in Texas?
Richard King showed that ranching could be a successful business in Texas, which brought new ranchers to Texas and revived the Texas economy.