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Cowboys and Cattle Drives
Railroads
Battles and Treaties
Words to Know
Wild Card
100
Name the two cities and states that marked the beginning and end of the Chisholm Trail.
What were San Antonio, Texas and Abilene, Kansas?
100
These changes occurred in Texas because of the coming of railroads.
What are population growth due to people and new businesses coming to Texas, the growth of cities, and the growth of industries?
100
This word names land set aside by the government for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
100
This breed of cattle is famous for their horns with tips that are very far apart. These horns are made even more famous by the determined battle cry of Texas Aggies to "saw 'em off." Name the breed of cattle.
What are longhorns?
100
List a few things that might cause a herd of cattle to stampede.
What is a violent thunderstorm, the sound of a rattlesnake, or anything that might scare just a few, then the others will follow?
200
Cowboys on the Chisholm Trail might spend about this much time moving the cattle from original point to the delivery point.
What is about three months?
200
Name two industries that grew thanks to the coming of railroads to Texas.
What are lumber, mineral, cattle?
200
This Comanche Indian became a trusted and valuable leader both for the Native Americans, but also for the U.S. government. He was the son of a captured white woman and her husband, a chief of the tribe. Name this important leader and tell the most important leadership moment of his life.
Who was Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Anne Parker and Chief Nocona? His most important leadership contribution was in leading the Comanches down "the white man's road" to the reservations of Oklahoma, and helping them adjust to a different life.
200
This famous invention of wire with sharp points allowed Texas ranchers to put up fences that cattle would not cross.
What is barbed wire?
200
List the four states that were the most common "end points" to the cattle drives.
What are Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri?
300
The members of a cattle drive included what three main components?
The cattle drive included a trail boss, a group of cowboys on horseback, and a cook.
300
The most difficult and dangerous work in building the railroads was often assigned to what group of people?
What are Chinese immigrants?
300
Name the U.S. General who once again introduced modern war that meant not merely killing hand-to-hand, but killing horses, destroying food, and burning entire villages in order to force victory.
Who was General William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
Name what we call a frightened group of cattle that begins running and cannot be stopped easily.
What is a stampede?
300
A design burned into cattle's hide became the method still used today to designate the ranch that owns the cattle. You can visit the Kleberg Center at Texas A&M and see the brands of 2,500 ranches in Texas, organized by county where they are found, burned right on to the walls. Name this method of marking cattle.
What is a brand or branding?
400
These three hardships were commonly experienced by cowboys on a cattle drive.
What are droughts and violent thunderstorms, a herd and riders being attacked by outlaws, and stampedes?
400
How did Texas encourage the building of railroads?
Texas offered land to railroad companies in exchange for every mile of track they built.
400
This brave woman was captured in a Comanche Indian raid, but grew to love the Native people, marry Chief Peta Nocona, and have three children, only one of whom survived. She was recaptured by the Texas Rangers, but died of heartbreak when she was not allowed to go "home" to her tribe. Name this great woman in history.
Who is Cynthia Anne Parker?
400
Changes that are made with the hope of improving things or making something better goes by this term. Some schools are known as being this type. What word designates this type of change, where, instead of doing away with something, you reshape it to become something better?
What is reform?
400
The great Comanche Indian Chief Quanah Parker rode in the inaugural parade of this United States President in the year 1905. Name the U.S. President.
Who was President Theodore Roosevelt?
500
These two events finally brought cattle drives to an end.
What are the invention of barbed wire and the building of railroads in Texas?
500
Name the group of people who were not treated fairly by the railroads. Name the organization formed to help reform these abuses.
Who were the farmers? What was the Grange?
500
Name the agreement between Native Americans and the United States government that forever changed the lives of the Native Americans. This agreement forced them out of free land and moved them to reservation land owned by the government. Name this official treaty.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
500
Before the railroads came to Texas, ranchers delivered their cattle to buyers north of us by using this method.
What were cattle drives?
500
Many of the railroad's unfair practices were stopped through the help of this agency, formed by Governor Hogg in 1890. This state agency is still serving Texas today, and is more important than ever due to the fact that it works not only with railroads, but with land, oil, gas, and minerals in Texas. Name the agency.
What is the Texas Railroad Commission?