Dates
Some random trains and cows
Coach Tabet's Favorite
The Wild Wild Texas Frontier
Vocabulary
100

What year were the Texas Rangers created? 

Answers: 1825 or 1823 or 1830 or 1835

1823

100

Who was the highest paid member of the Cattle Drives?


Trail Hand or Cook or Trail Boss or the Remuda

Trail Boss

100

What was the second most important crop?


Wheat or Corn or Apples or Avocados

Corn

100

I am the most famous Texas Ranger


Answers: William B. Travis or Stephen F. Austin or John Jack Coffee Hays or Matthew Caldwell

John Jack Coffee Hays

100

What is a wild horse? 

Mustang

200

What year was the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek signed? 

Answers: 1845 or 1855 or 1865 or 1867

1867

200

Railroads helped improve farming by allowing farmers to move their crops to other buyers on the trains. Because of this, famers started the..


Subsistence Farming or Commercial Agriculture or Frontier

Commercial Agriculture  

200

Ghost Towns became very common when __________ did not pass through them. 


Planes or Carriages or Rivers or Railroads

Railroads

200

What treaty was created between U.S. Officials and Indians to end conflict and provide food and supplies? 



Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek

200

I keep animals, especially cattle during the cattle drives, out of areas they don't need to be in. I am like a barrier. 

Barbed Wire

300

What year was the "new" Texas Constitution signed?

Answers: 1865 or 1867 or 1876 or 1890 

1876

300

Who of the people below brought cattle to Texas?  

Stephen F. Austin or Sam Houston or Cabeza de Vaca or Coach Pittman

Cabeza de Vaca 

300

True or False: As a Buffalo Soldier, I was in charge of killing as many Buffalo as I can to help wipe the Indian population. 

False. Buffalo Soldiers were black soldiers in the Civil War who had curly brown hair that often looked like a buffalo's hide (Hair/Skin). 

300

What Comanche chief attacked Anglo settlements in Texas and would later become a cattle rancher?


Satanta or Quanah Parker or Matthew Caldwell 

Quanah Parker

300

The supply of water to land or crops to help growth. 

Irrigation

400
What time period did Cabeza de Vaca map Texas?


1600's or 1500's or 1700's

1500's

400

Oh no, my cattle got sick and we need to get them away from the healthy cattle. I need them to be alone so they need to.....

Quarantine 

400

Hi My name is Coach Pittman, I work on a plot of land that is owned by someone else hoping I can get my share of that crop. I am a 

Tenant Farmer

400

The Comanche Indians Land and all their tribes unified as one was called the...


Comancheria 

400

I spin and spin and spin and spin and when I do I pump water from the ground. 

Windmill

500

What year was barbed wire fence created?


1874 or 1875 or 1880 or 1870

1874

500

What was the first Cattle Trail in Texas that started in 1866? 

Shawnee Trail

500

What made the cotton gin so useful? 

Sped Harvesting up, Quickly removed seed, and didn't have to use hands anymore. 

500

Hi My name is Matthew Tabet, I am skilled shooter, knew the land, and had skilled horses. I fought in the American Revolution and Mexican-American War and often helped enforce the law across Texas as a police and military force. What am I? 

a Texas Ranger

500

Coach Pittman and Coach Tabet own piece of technology that only they have. They control all of the supply and control all of it's trade with no competition.  

Monopoly