Cotton, Cattle, Railroad Vocabulary and Cattle Questions

• Reservations


  Areas of land reserved for Native Americans once they were removed from the frontier.

  
• Commercial farming


  The growing of crops to sell at market

  
• Barbed Wire


  Fencing with sharp points invented in the 1800's to keep animals from leaving or entering

  
• Cattle Drives


  The process in which Cowboys moved herds of cattle to market for sale

  
• Open Range


  A large area of grazing land without fences or barriers

  
• Rural


  Large and open areas of isolated country with low population

  
• Urban


  Relating to cities and towns

  
• Buffalo Soldiers


  Regiments of African American soldiers that helped to protect Texans after the Civil War

  
• Extinction


  The dying out or killing of an entire species

  
• Cotton Gin


  A machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign materials from cotton

  
• Why did Americans come to Texas?

  fresh start, cattle ranching, cotton farms
• Who named the Buffalo Soldiers?

  Cheyenne Indians

  
• Why Buffalo Soldiers got their name?

  Out of respect and their fighting ability

  
• Cynthia Ann Parker


  Child kidnapped by the Comanche Indians

  
• Vaquero


  The first cowboys

  
• Longhorn


  breed of cattle that developed as Spanish breeds mixed with English (Europe) cattle brought by U.S. settlers

  
• Reasons cattle boom ended


  weather, cattle prices, railroads, barbed wire
• Cowboy gear


  Saddle and rope