People
They were the 1st cowboys.
Spanish Vaqueros
What brought an end to slavery.
Civil war
This was a cowboy's biggest fear on a cattle drive.
stampede
What does ranchero mean
a Spanish rancher
These two immigrant groups built the railroads in Texas.
Irish and the Chinese
Farmers who rented land, tools, seeds, and houses and then used their harvest to pay rent were known as.
Sharecroppers
Making fence cutting a felony by the Legislature was to stop this.
Range Wars
The time period of 1860 - 1900 was most well known for this thing.
Cattle Drives
What made towns pop up in places?
The building of railroads
During this Era, cotton was grown in this area of Texas and Cattle were raised in this area of Texas.
Coastal Plains
This fraction of cowboys were Mexican, African American, Native American, or Female.
One-half
Texas Governor best known for protecting Texas citizens from unfair business practices by the Railroads.
Jim Hogg
Formed the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular US Army, were freed slaves.
Buffalo Soldiers
Why would freed people become sharecroppers, rather than pursue work?
They were always in debt
This was the oldest and first cattle drive trail.
Shawnee
Ranching in West Texas instead of Farming was done because of a lack of this.
Water
1st Native born Texas Governor, Established the Texas Railroad Commission.
James "Jim" Hogg
This transportation innovation changed agriculture from Subsistence to Commercial.
Railroads
Cattle drives were caused by this.
a demand for beef after the Civil War by people in the North and East
The use of barb wire brought an end to this.
Cattle drives