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Cattle Drives and Oil Booms
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3. Vaqueros, Lassos, and Rodeos are all evidence of which culture in the Texas Cattle Industry?
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4. Spanish

5. True or False: Cowboys’ jobs were exciting, paid well and was exclusively for Anglos.
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6. False

7. land and grazing rights known as the Range wars.
Farmers used barbed wire to keep cattle from grazing on the open range, as a
result cowboys practiced fence cutting; which resulted in the political battle over
land and grazing rights known as the Range wars.
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8. Political conflict between cattle ranchers and cotton farmers on the frontier?

9. What social issues surrounded tenant farming and sharecropping?
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10. Sharecroppers and Tenant Farmers were unaware that they were underpaid.
They also had to pay land owners for all supplies and ultimately lived the life of a
slave with some payment because they only knew that lifestyle.

11. True or False: Dry Farming, irrigation, and terracing were techniques created in the West because of the large abundance of water available.
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12. False

13. oil boom in Texas producing 3.5 million barrels in the first year.
In 1901, the striking of oil at this oil field was seen as the event that jumpstarted the
oil boom in Texas producing 3.5 million barrels in the first year.
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14. Spindletop

15. rural area to an urban area for jobs.
The process of making an area more urban. The movement of people from a
rural area to an urban area for jobs.
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16. Urbanization

17. Why did the Texas Railroad Commision have the ability to regulate the oil industry?
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18. The Texas Railroad Commission was responsible for regulating the transportation and prices of oil and other goods to extinguish corruption.

19. Which was a major factor in the industrialization (the introduction of large scale manufacturing) of Texas?
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20. Automobiles(cars)

21. they received from manufacturers?
How did workers respond to the poor working conditions and poor treatment
they received from manufacturers?
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22. They formed labor unions.

23. Which marked the beginning of the oil boom in Texas?
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24. Spindletop

25. Largest oil discovery in Texas at the time, pumped between
3.5 to 4 million barrels per
year.
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26. Spindletop

27. when a population undergoes repeated cycles of overshoots followed by crashes
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28. Boom and Bust

29. an industrial installation where a substance is cleaned and purified
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30. Refinery

31. Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas
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Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas
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32. Struck Oil on Spindletop 1901

33. Why did the cotton industry explode after the Civil War even though the Southern plantation owners believed it would fail after the abolition of slavery?
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34. sharecropping and tenant farmers didn’t get paid well, it was enough incentive to make the cotton industry explode from 300,000 bails to 3,000,000 bails.

35. Why were buffalo important to Native Americans of the Plains
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36. Food

37. Which of these eventually forced American Indians onto the reservations
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38. Mass Slaughter of Buffalo

39. Cattle were first brought to America by explorers from
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40. Spain

41. c. not popular in South Texas. d. easy and safe
13. Trail driving was -
a. hard work.
b. done only by Tejanos.
c. not popular in South Texas.
d. easy and safe
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42. A. Hard work

43. Most cattle trails took Texas cattle from the southern part of the state to
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44. railroads in Missouri and Kansas

45. a farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent and leases supplies and materials from land owner
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46. Sharecroppers

47. Texas railroad commissioner who had supported of the Southern Farmers Alliance.
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48. Jim Hogg

49. This was the year Reconstruction ended
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50. 1877

51. A cross breed of cattle that was suitable for long drives and was worth more money in the northwest
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52. Longhorn