Texas History
Cattle, Railroads, and Cotton...OH MY!
Each station will tell you what to do. You may also use your textbook (pages 358-376).
Station 1: Terms You Need to Know
Directions
Using dictionary.com, write the definition for the terms on your paper. Then answer the question with each term.
Station 2: Getting Around Texas in the 1850s
Directions
Take a look at the maps of trails and rivers that were across Texas in the 1850s. There were 4 modes of transportation at the time. Tell me 2 problems that could arise with each form.
Ways of getting around Texas at that Time.
Can Travel 3 miles per hour
Can travel 5-9 miles per hour
Can travel 1.6 miles per hour
Ways to get around in Texas on the Rivers
Station 3: Cattle and Cattle Drives
Directions:
Each video and article has questions to go along with it. You can watch and then answer or answer as you watch.
https://youtu.be/nUIzSscDTPI
https://youtu.be/PaHQ2vrt0ak
Station 4: Railroads
https://youtu.be/a8lX5A2q-Eo
How Railroads Affect Our Lives
From Discovery Education
Answer questions in packet using the maps below.
From the Museum of the American Railroad
Station 5: Agriculture
Sharecropping vs. Tenant Farmer
Please use pages 368-370 from your textbook to fill out the Venn Diagram.
Granger Movement
Go to Mackinvia.
In the databases, click on Brittanica School.
Search "Granger Movement".
Read the article that comes up.
Answer the questions in the packet.
Pulling it All Together
All though these areas seem completely separate, one could not exist without the others. Answer the questions in your packet about what you have learned.
Mrs. Lassley
Trent Middle School Librarian
Email: lassleyh@friscoisd.org
Twitter: @heatherlassley