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Baxmann TEST: MON | 4/21
Review: Chapter 14 (Farming and Ranching)
1. Before the lands were fenced in, where did cattle owners let their cattle graze?
2. How did cowhands try to improve their working conditions?
3. Growing crops for sale is called…
4. What is a tenant farmer?
5. Farmers who borrowed money had to repay what they borrowed plus an additional amount, known as…
6. The machine that separated cottonseeds from cotton bolls was the…
7. Who provided the money that built the large cattle ranches?
8. Why did small farmers fight large ranchers in the “range wars”?
9. What happened as a result of the Big Die-Up?
10. What industry came to Fort Worth in the early 1900s?
11. Why was farming in West Texas more difficult than in East Texas?
12. Why did cotton become the major crop of Texas in the late 1800s?
13. From what area did many new settlers come to Texas in the late 1800s?
14. What problems of the 1880s and 1890s caused many Texas farmers to lose their farms?
15. What was the biggest crop in Texas after cotton?
16. Why did the Texas sheep industry grow in the late 1800s?
17. What work did the cotton gin do?
18. What was the open range?
19. When farmers began growing cotton for sale, what kind of farming were they carrying out?
20. The people who rented land in exchange for part of their crop were called
21. How did people show that they owned particular animals in the days of the open range?
22. The investors who built large cattle ranches in West Texas mostly came from
23. What did cowhands think of the changes caused by fencing in the open range?
24. List three (3) reasons for the end of cattle drives:
25. Why did farmers grow cotton and not corn in West Texas?
26. How did railroads change trade in Texas?
27. When the Civil War ended, why did plantation owners use tenant farmers?
28. How did the national economic depression affect Texas farmers?