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Cattle
Cause & Effect
Railroads
American Indians
Technology
100
This is the era during which cattle drives were most prominent.
What is 1860-1900?
100

what happened to Texas' Population because many people moved to Texas in the years following the Civil War.

what is the population of Texas increased?

100
A person who comes from another country to settle, and, in this case, help build the railroad.
What is an immigrant?
100
Buffalo
What is Native American's main source of food?
100
This invention helped in the open range by allowing farmers and ranchers to build fences.
What is barbwire?
200
This resource influenced Texans to go into the cattle business rather than farming.
What is water?
200
Because they were respected by the Native Americans, these African-American soldiers were given this nickname.
Who are buffalo soldiers?
200
Because of railroads, Texans were able to shift from subsistence agriculture to this.
What is commercial agriculture?
200
Peta Nacona
Who is Quanah Parker's father?
200
These helped irrigate crops in dry, arid conditions.
What are windmills?
300

This cattle trail was a pathway from Texas to Kansas.

What is the Chisholm Trail?

300

What technological innovation led to thousands of people being able to migrate to the west much more quickly, cheaply, and comfortably.

What are trains?

300
Railroads in Texas eventually put an end to these long trips north.
What are cattle drives?
300
Cynthia Ann Parker
Who is Quanah Parker's mother?
300
This invention made cattle drives unnecessary, made travel easier and allowed Texas to shift from subsistence agriculture to commercial agriculture.
What are railroads?
400
Who brought cattle to Texas in the 1500s?
Who are the Spanish?
400

Range wars were fights between farmers and ranchers over the use of water, barbwire and the raising of this type of animal?

What are Cattle?

400
This city was the first to have telegraph lines.
What is Galveston?
400
The last chief of the Comanche.
Who is Quanah Parker?
400
The creation of barbwire helped out which type of profession in Texas the most?
What are farmers?
500
Which part of the United States demanded beef and created a market in Texas to supply it?
What is the eastern United States?
500
Because railroads made it easier to transport cattle, cotton, seed, and textiles, this increased throughout Texas.
What is the economy?
500
The two railroad companies that brought the first transcontinental railroad to the United States.
What is the Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
500
Because Texas farmers and ranchers wanted their land, Native Americans were moved to these.
What are reservations?
500
This technology brought thousands of immigrants to Texas.
What are railroads?