2. Why would the Goodnight-Loving Trail or the Great Western trail be used to send cattle to California?
Other Questions and Vocabulary from the Unit (pages 473-553)
3. What were cowboys in the 1820s and 1830s called? (#477)
4. What was a stockyard? (#480)
5. Who was Jesse Chisholm? (#480)
6. Why did the Western Trail become the major route for driving cattle north by about 1876? (#481)
7. What is a quarantine? (#483)
8. What was the result of the development of railroads throughout Texas in relation to the cattle industry? (#484)
9. What was the name of the biggest ranch in Texas? (#486)
10. What invention ended the “open range” in the late 1800s? (#488)
11. Give one reason why beef prices eventually fell. (#490)
12. What was “dry farming”? (#493)
13. What was one impact of the railroads?9#493)
14. What was a sharecropper? (#496)
15. What was one challenge of tenant farming? (#497)
16. What political party regained control of the TX legislature by 1872? (#504)
17. Which US Supreme Court case said that “separate but equal” facilities were Constitutional? (#506)
18. What were the Jim Crow Laws? (#506)
19. What did women fight for during the “suffrage” movement? (#509)
20. What was the purpose of the transcontinental railroad? (#512)
21. Give one reason farmers faced problems in the late 1800s. (#517)
22. What is “progressivism”? (#519)
23. Which Texas governor focused on regulating the railroads? (#521)
24. Which industry boomed in Texas after Spindletop? (#529)
25. What disaster in Texas led to reform in 1900? (#540)
Bonus: In your opinion, what was Annie Webb Blanton’s greatest achievement in Texas education and why?