unit 8 review game

when was the end of the civil war?

• 1600

• 1543

• 1865

• 1945

from 1850-1900, what happened because of railroads?

• West Texas’ population grew larger than that of East Texas.

• Texas became a primary producer of cotton.

• New cities grew up along the rail lines.

• American Indian tribes were relocated.

The range wars of the late 1800s in Texas were caused by —

• railroad companies building on American Indian lands

• sharecroppers claiming public lands

• immigrants moving onto lands in West Texas

• farmers and ranchers fencing land with barbed wire

Which reason best explains why many Germans immigrated to the Texas?

• Many were attracted by the cheap land and mild climate.

• Many escaped a potato famine and poverty.

• Many came to help build railroads in Texas.

• Many left because of wars in Germany.

One way that Governor James Hogg worked to protect Texans from unfair business

practice was by —

• prosecuting corrupt leaders in the oil industry

• supporting the creation of the Texas Railroad Commission

• signing legislation that established the Attorney General’s office

• working to bring an end to the range wars in West Texas

In which region of Texas was most of the cotton industry located?

• East Texas

• Mountains and basins

• West Texas

• Great plains

Railroad helped support the transportation of which industry item?

• Cattle

• Cotton and oil

• lumber

• Cattle, lumber, oil, and cotton

One consequence of the use of barbed wired on the frontier of Texas included —

• the end of the cattle drives and the open range

• the introduction of rodeos

• a decline in the number of cattle ranches

• an increase in conflicts with American Indian tribes

the invention of barbed wire was influenced

by —

• a need to keep pigs in pens

• drawings created by farmers on the Great Plains

• the use of natural fences in the past

• writings of earlier inventors of fences

● I was the son of an American woman captured by the Comanches.

● I was the last Chief of the Comanches.

● My tribe roamed West Texas.

● I eventually assimilated into American culture and influenced other American Indians to

do so.

Who is this?

• Cynthia Parker

• Peta Nocona

• Quanah Parker

• santanta