Native Americans
By 1877, this animal, essential to Native American life, was nearly wiped out due to overhunting.
What is the buffalo (or bison)?
This large type of cattle is known for its large horns and delicious meat.
What is a "Longhorn"?
This type of fencing helped protect crops from roaming livestock.
What is barbed wire?
Railroad companies encouraged the development of these along their routes.
What are towns?
This famous yellow sponge lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
This Comanche chief, son of an Anglo-American woman, refused to move onto a reservation.
Who is Quanah Parker?
By the late 1880s, this practice of transporting cattle from point A to point B by horseback came to an end due to expanding railroads and fenced lands.
What are cattle drives?
The displacement of this group opened up more land for cotton farming in Texas.
Who are Native Americans?
Before 1850, most Texans lived near these two geographic features due to limited transportation.
What are rivers and the Gulf Coast?
This popular snack is made from dried corn kernels that puff up when heated.
What is popcorn?
This group of African American soldiers was given a respected nickname by Native Americans.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
Texas cowboys adopted many ranching traditions from this culture, including branding, chaps, and lariats.
Who are the Spanish?
After the Civil War, many former plantations were divided into smaller farms, creating this system where farmers paid rent with crops.
What is tenant farming?
This Texas governor created the Texas Railroad Commission to regulate unfair railroad practices.
Who is James Hogg?
This superhero is known as the "Caped Crusader" and protects Gotham City.
Who is Batman?
This 1867 treaty attempted to create peace by moving Native Americans to reservations in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the Medicine Lodge Treaty?
This famous trail, used from 1867 to 1884, saw over 5 million cattle driven north.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This farming system required workers to give a portion of their crops as payment for tools and supplies.
What is sharecropping?
Two Texas railroad lines were completed and connected to this national railway system.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This is the hottest planet in our solar system, even though it's not the closest to the Sun.
What is Venus?
This 1871 raid, also known as the Salt Creek Raid, involved over 100 Native Americans attacking a wagon train.
What is the Warren Wagon Train Raid?
Texas Longhorns carried this disease, which led some farmers to block cattle trails.
What is Texas fever?
This invention allowed faster communication of cotton sales.
What is the telegraph?
James Hogg invented this organization to prevent price gouging in the railroad industry for Texas.
What is the Texas Railroad Commission?
This is the amount of fingers Mr. Harris is holding up right now behind his back...
What is... (Mr. Harris will show you how many.)