War On The Frontier – Oil Industry

Front 1

What was not a condition of the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?

Back 1

American Indians must take up farming.

Front 2

Why did many Quakers become involved in American Indian affairs?

Back 2

To try to avoid war on the frontier.

Front 3

What word BEST describes an American Indian’s life on the reservations?

Back 3

Difficult

Front 4

What accomplishment is Henry O. Flipper known for?

Back 4

Being the first African American to graduate from West Point

Front 5

How did the end of the Indian wars affect the Texan frontier?

Back 5

Settlers continued to move westward.

Front 6

You would most likely find a vaquero –

Back 6

On a cattle drive

Front 7

How did rustlers threaten the cattle industry?

Back 7

Stealing cattle

Front 8

What is NOT a characteristic of longhorn cattle?

Back 8

They do not provide much meat- they actually provide quiet a bit of meat.

Front 9

How did the Civil War affect the longhorn numbers?

Back 9

Longhorns became abundant in Texas because of the blockades.

Front 10

Why did the cowboys sing sad, slow songs at night?

Back 10

It calmed the nervous cattle.

Front 11

What are the hazard that commonly killed many cowboys?

Back 11

Blizzards
Floods
Stampedes

Front 12

What was a reason that cattle owners branded their cattle?

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Unbranded cattle could be claimed by anyone.

Front 13

Texas longhorns were prized by cattle ranchers because –

Back 13

they could survive under harsh conditions

Front 14

Texas fever was a disease transmitted by –

Back 14

ticks

Front 15

James Taylor White, who was among the first ranchers to take cattle to market in Louisiana, was considered Texas’s first –

Back 15

cattle baron.

Front 16

Farmers in East Texas and Arkansas were upset by the cattle drives that traveled through their areas because –

Back 16

the cattle trampled their crops.

Front 17

In which cultures did the Texas cattle industry have its origins?

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Spanish and English

Front 18

The following were geographic features that favored the growth of the cattle industry in Texas EXCEPT –

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mountainous terrain- too dangerous for footing.

Front 19

Producing almost all the goods needed by the farm family, with a little extra for sale, is know as –

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subsistence farming

Front 20

Why was tenant farming the only way for many farmers to survive?

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They could not afford to buy their own land.

Front 21

Petroleum is a dark, thick liquid fossil fuel commonly known as –

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oil.

Front 22

Which term associated with the oil industry is a tower that supports oil-drilling equipment?

Back 22

derrick

Front 23

What effect did the Spindletop strike have on the local economy?

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It caused an economic boom and created many jobs.

Front 24

What was a wildcatter?

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An independent oil operator who searched for new fields

Front 25

Boomtowns got their name because –

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their population grew as a result of the economic growth.

Front 26

How did worker respond to the poor working conditions and poor treatment they received from manufacturers?

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they formed labor unions

Front 27

What development opened new far away markets to the cattle industry?

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refrigerated railroad car

Front 28

Petrochemicals are products made from –

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oil and gas.

Front 29

Which item is NOT a petrochemical product?

Back 29

staples

Front 30

Who discovered the largest oil field in the world as of 1930?

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Pattillo Higgins

Front 31

By the end of the 1930’s, when Texas produced more oil,

Back 31

the price of oil fell.