Texas State History Grade 7: The Cattle Industry Quick Check Answers (U2L5):
Which statement correctly describes the status of Texas cattle throughout most of the eighteenth century?
Some were kept close to settlements and branded to indicate their owners, but many lived feral.
How did cattle contribute to tensions between Spanish settlers and Indigenous nations in South and East Texas during the eighteenth century?
The Spanish objected to Indigenous hunters killing feral cattle in places where bison were scarce.
Which option correctly describes the workers who herded Anglo-American cattle in the 1820s and 1830s?
They were mostly laborers who included Tejano vaqueros, enslaved African Americans, French Louisianians, and Anglo-Americans.
What profitable advantage did cattle raisers in Texas enjoy under the Mexican government that had been denied to them during most of the period that Spain controlled the region?
They were allowed to sell their cattle and cattle products to the port of New Orleans.
A student wrote the following thesis statement for their history research paper:
Because of the U.S. Civil War, the Texas cattle industry turned into a profitable nationwide industry.
Which of the following statements identifies evidence that best supports this argument?
An abundance of cattle existed in Texas after the Civil War, and ranchers needed to find ways to sell it to northern cities.
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