Unit 8 Vocabulary TEST

The team of men moving cattle from ranches to railroad towns-

• cattle drive

• native reservation

• Buffalo soldiers

• railroads

Populist Governor of Texas that founded the Texas Railroad Commission

• West Texas

• Stephen F. Austin

• James Hogg

• Sam Houston

Disputes and conflicts over grazing land and water rights?

• cattle drive

• cattle trail

• Texas Railroad Commission

• Range Wars

Land granted to Native American tribes by U.S. Government

• cattle drive

• native reservation

• range wars

• cattle trail

Gathering of livestock for cattle drives usually held in a pen

• roundup

• cattle trail

• open range

• cattle drive

Uses wind to pump water out of the ground for irrigation of crops

• stampede

• barbed wire fence

• windmill

• subsistence farming

Farms that grow just enough food for the family

• tenet farming

• subsistence farming

• commercial farming

• agriculture

Ranches where cattle were raised before being taken to market by cattle drives

• open range

• cattle drive

• chuck wagon

• cattle ranch

Name given to African American soldiers serving on the frontier.

• James Hogg

• West Texas

• Buffalo Soldier

• Sam Houston

Cattle that run out of control on a cattle drive

• cattle trail

• open range

• cattle ranch

• Stampede