1) What is an example of a transportation problem in Texas in the 1850s?  a) Texas traffic Jams on HW 35 b) Not enough railroads for the trains c) Texas roads were rough, crude, and impassable in wet weather 2) Railroad charters in Texas failed at first because a) Rough roads b) Public suspicion of the possibility of monopolies  c) Congress denied the railroad charter d) Not enough money to build the tracks 3) Texas Railroad Commission was established to a) Protect the buffalo b) To regulate the 71 railroad companies c) Stop the Native Americans from attacking railroad builders d) Stop monopolies 4) The railroads were important to which industries? a) Cattle b) Lumber c) Cotton d) Citrus 5) How were the Plains Tribes affected by the railroads?  a) The killing of buffalo eventually starving  b) Killed off by train riders c) Texas Railroad Commission pushed them out of the west 6) Who were the primary railroad builders? a) Chinese immigrants  b) Convict-Lease Prisoners c) Native Americans d) Cowboys 7) Who invented the Cotton Gin a) Thomas Jefferson b) Eli Whitney c) Sam Houston d) Ellis Witmen 8) After what war did the demand for cotton increase? a) American Revolution b) Texas Independence c) Civil War d) World War I 9) What factors led to the bust of the cotton industry in Texas? a) The railroads and Windmill b) Cotton gin and windmill c) Weevil beetle and windmill d) Weevil beetle and drought 10) True or False- The Plains tribes gave the Buffalo soldier their name. a) True b) False 11) What was the Buffalo soldier's primary job?  a) Keep settlers from moving west b) Protect and patrol the western frontier c) Rebel against the U.S. government

Cotton, Railroads and Buffalo Soldier- Texas

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