Cattle Drives/Railroads
True or False:
Railroads made goods get to markets slower.
False
True or False:
An effect of the Dust Bowl is people moved into Texas.
False
Cut down trees to build homes
Which of the following was NOT transported on railroads?
A. Cows
B. Crops
C. Oil
D. Wood
C. Oil
Supply and demand means that the more popular (demanded) a good is, the more profits go ______.
Up
What does the word "industry" mean AND what is one industry in Fort Worth?
Cattle, railroads, oil, airplanes
Barbed wire ended which of the following?
A. The Civil War
B. The open range/cattle drives
C. Oil
D. Farming
B. The open range/cattle drives
The discovery of oil at Spindletop led a population increase in which region of Texas?
Coastal Plains
Which region of Texas is Fort Worth in? (You will have to flip between your Fort Worth notes and Map of Texas Regions.)
Central Plains
Which letter shows the HIGHEST population density?
B
Why was Fort Worth founded in 1849?
A. A place for cowboys to rest on cattle drives
B. To build airplanes
C. To find oil
D. A military outpost
D. A military outpost
What are the 4 states/territories that the Goodnight-Loving Trail ran through?
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming
Name two causes of the Dust Bowl.
1. Over-farming of wheat
2. High temperatures
3. Low rainfall
Based on your Fort Worth notes, what can be plugged in to help define "modified"?
A. Keep the same
B. Changed
C. Burned down
D. Increased
B. Changed