The Cow Goes...
This is the name for a whole group of cows.
What is a herd?
Hunters used railroads to hunt this large animal that provided food to Native Americans.
What is the Buffalo?
What is irrigation?
This is the location for the largest oil find in Texas.
What is Spindletop?
This is the year Kahla Middle School was established.
What is 2005?
Cattle were marked with unique "signatures" using these super-heated irons.
What are cattle brands?
Railways built in Texas primarily traveled this direction towards stockyards and processing plants in Chicago and St. Louis.
What is North?
This invention by Eli Whitney led to a surge in cotton production, and therefore supply.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Plastics, Rubbers, and Paints are all made from this source of Petrochemicals.
What is Oil?
This is a large social media platform known for its dancing content.
What is Tik-Tok?
True or false: Cowboys were all heroes who saved the day by stopping bank robberies and rescuing helpless townfolk.
False, this is a Cowboy Myth.
This is the action of moving someone or something or the process of being relocated.
What is transportation?
These were large-scale farms, primarily located in southern states that usually relied upon enslaved labor.
What are plantations?
This is the name for cities that grew or "exploded" around discoveries of oil.
What is a Boomtown?
Solve for X: x6 - 132x5 +7260x4 - 212960x3 + 3513840x2 - 30921792x + 113379904 = 0
x = 22
Just kidding, free points.
What are cattle drives?
In order to complete the Transcontinental Railroad across the U.S., this purchase of land in southern Arizona had to be made from Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Some farms produced food for their families to survive on, but many in southern states chose to produce this group of crops in an effort to make as much money as possible.
What are cash crops?
True or False: Oil and Natural Gas is only found in the eastern region of Texas.
False, Oil and Natural Gas is found in every region of Texas including the Gulf of Mexico!
This is the score that inspired the name BEVO.
What is 13-0?
These are three different pieces of equipment/clothing that all cowboys used.
What are:
Ropes/Lassos, Hats, Spurs, Chaps, Saddles, etc.
The introduction of railroads to this major Texas city, meant cattle drive could be much shorter, as cattle could be loaded and transported from this location.
What is Dallas/Ft. Worth?
This is the name for farm laborers who found themselves in a cycle of poverty, endlessly working to pay off debt to the landowners.
What is a sharecropper/tenant farmer?
With the surge of people moving to cities looking for economic opportunities, conditions like these became common in boomtowns.
What are overcrowding, lack of sanitation, increase in crime, increase in diseases?
This is the number of remaining school days for the Spring semester
What is 28?