Math Question of the Day (The Constitution Version) [(Add the three Reconstruction Amendments divided by the Right to Bear Arms) / number of branches.

Math Question of the Day

(The Constitution Version)• [(Add the three

Reconstruction Amendments divided by the Right to Bear Arms) / number of branches in the federal government] plus the total number of U.S. Senators

The Cattle Kingdom and Farming

on the Great Plains

Cattle Drive!

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How did the Cattle Boom Begin/End?

• Texas Longhorn • Tough, lean animal needing little water

• Worth $5 in Texas, but $80 in New York (supply and demand)

• Ranchers out west walk cattle to slaughter houses, then ship meat east

• Open Range

• Range Rights

• Land out west through which cattle graze (shared)

• Begins to disappear a people buy land out west

• Cattle ranchers buy rights to use steams from land owners

• Vaqueros

• Roundup

• Cattle Drive

• Mexican cattlemen who give ranchers ideas of style of dress and tools

• Gathering cattle together from a ranch• You can tell them apart by brand

• Moving cattle from ranch to railroad• Took several months, and covered

hundreds of miles • Dangerous - Thieves, weather, stampede,

injury• Ended at Cow Towns - drinking, gambling,

restaurants, and showers

•End of the Open Range

• Farmers begin to buy up open range land and stop cattle drives

• Barbed Wire - Allows farmers to cheaply fence an area off

• Sheep farmers move in and sheep eat all the grazing grass

• Bad winters of 1885/86 kill 30% of herds