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Cattle And Cotton Lesson 2
Test Description: Texas History
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Before _____ became available, animals had to be shipped live to slaughter houses and those slaughterhouses had to be near markets in order to avoid the meat spoiling.
A
Mifflin Kenedy
B
cotton
C
refrigeration
2) While many ranchers of the 1800s grazed their cattle on the open range, Richard King and _____ were among the first ranchers to fence their land.
A
Mifflin Kenedy
B
Joseph Glidden
C
refrigeration
3) _____ paid careful attention to cattle breeding and improved his herds, making his beef cattle some of the best in the United States.
A
Charles Goodnight
B
Joseph Glidden
C
Mifflin Kenedy
D
Matador Ranch
4) The _____, one of the largest in Texas, was owned in part by investors from Great Britain.
A
Charles Goodnight
B
Matador Ranch
C
XIT Ranch
5) The 3 million acres of the _____ came from a grant from the state of Texas to the ranch's owners in exchange for their financing of a new state capitol building in Austin.
A
Matador Ranch
B
mustangs
C
XIT Ranch
6) Wild horses called _____ roamed freely on the open range and banded together to form wild herds.
A
XIT Ranch
B
mustangs
C
refrigeration
7) Texas sheep rancher _____ was a pioneer in raising sheep for their wool and is regarded by some as the father of the Texas sheep industry.
A
Joseph Glidden
B
Mifflin Kenedy
C
George Wilkins Kendall
8) _____ invented the most successful type of barbed-wire.
A
Mifflin Kenedy
B
Joseph Glidden
C
George Wilkins Kendall
9) In 1884 the Texas legislature passed a law that made _____ a felony.
A
refrigeration
B
fence cutting
C
drift fences
10) Thousands of cattle died due to _____ during the winters of 1885 and 1887.
A
refrigeration
B
drift fences
C
fence cutting
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