Title: The farmer paid his rent with a share of the crop:
1The farmer paid his rent with a share of the crop
2Sharecropping
3cowboys at the back of the herd
4drag
5The 2 biggest ranches in Texas
6XIT RanchKing Ranch
7The Panic of 1873 started when
8banks made bad loans went out of business
9Towns tended to grow up near the
10railroads
11cowboys at the sides of the herd
12flankers
13The number one meat-packing center in Texas?
14Fort Worth
15Texas coal mining town?
16Thurber
17What ended the open range?
18barbed wire
19What bug ate the cotton plants?
20boll weevil
21What encouraged farming in the 1800s?
22steel plow
23What pumped water up from underground?
24windmill
251 industry in Texas in the late 1800s?
26lumber
27The cattle drives drove the cattle to
28the railroads
29After the Civil War, many freedmen became
30sharecroppers
31main crop in Texas in the 1800s?
32cotton
33The Chisholm Trail went to
34Abilene , Kansas
35 wagon that carried the cooking supplies on a
trail drive?
36chuck wagon
37cattle are herded together branded
38at the roundup before the cattle drive
39The coal industry in Texas grew when
40trains began to use coal for fuel
41the whole town was owned by the company
42company town
43workers in a company town were paid in
44scrip
45In the late 1800s people began to move from
46the farms to the city
47What 2 towns grew as lumber towns?
48Beaumont Orange
49What town grew because it was a railroad crossing?
50Dallas
51What 2 towns grew as seaports?
52Galveston Houston
53How many days a week would people work in the
factories?
546 days a week
55factory workers organized_?_ to get better
working conditions
56labor unions
57How many hours a day did factory workers work?
5812 hours a day
59to get what they wanted , labor unions would
60go on strike
61cowboys who took care of the horses on a trail
drive?
62wranglers
63farmers who grew just enough food to survive?
64subsistence farming
65What allowed beef to be shipped far away without
spoiling?
66refrigerated railroad car
67a cattle thief
68rustler
69warehouse where beef is prepared?
70packinghouse
71a mark burned on the hide of cattle?
72 brand
73a pen where cattle are kept before shipping or
butchering
74stockyard
75the westward trail went to
76Dodge City, Kansas
77cowboys who rode by the lead cattle?
78pointers