Topic 10, Lesson 2: Western Agriculture

What influences did the vaqueros have on cowhand culture in the United States?

• clothing

• riding horses

• roping cattle

• branding cattle

What were cow towns?

• groups of farms in rural America

• ranch estates that had most of the area's cattle

• settlements at the end of cow trails along railroad lines

• areas outside of cities that had farms

What effect did the arrival of growing numbers of farmers have on the open range system?

• more farmers meant more people to care for the vast amount of land

• limited amount of grassland for cattle grazing

• fences that marked farm borders threatened open range

• land grants for railroad diminished open range

​ (a)   ​ illegally took control of Homestead Act land and resold it at a profit to ​ (b)   .

• big landowning companies
• small farmers
• freedmen
• sodbusters
• rancheros
• National Grange Cooperation

The __ provided a less expensive source of higher education and taught more practical skills than the private colleges of the time.

Passed in 1890, the Second Morrill Act did what?

• extended land-grant funding to African American students

• led to the formation of HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities)

• upheld segregation laws (separate but equal)

• cancelled segregation laws

What effects did the isolation of western farms have on the women of the Plains?

• they made many of the goods their families needed

• they served as schoolteachers

• they were not allowed to work

• they provided medical attention to the sick and injured

In 1867, farmers formed the (a)   , which ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   railroads charged for shipping grain.

• National Grange
• boost farm profits
• reduced the rates
• Populist Party
• increased the rates
• decreased profits

In 1892, farmers and labor unions joined to form the People's Party, known as __.

The Populist Party wanted ​ (a)   mined in the west to be coined into money; ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   opposed this, arguing it would lead to ​ (d)   .

• silver
• eastern bankers
• factory owners
• inflation
• gold
• farmers
• labor unions
• taxes