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Cattle Industry - Quickquiz

 You have 60 seconds to answer true or false to the questions below:

1. The first white people in America were Europeans
2. Longhorn cattle were brought to America from Europe
3. Joseph McCoy was a Chicago banker
4. Kansas homesteaders objected to longhorn cattle crossing their land
5. Longhorn cattle carried a tick that infected other animals
6. Abilene was a cow town
7. The cattle trade was at its peak from 1820 - 1850
8. The winter of 1886-7 caused the death of large numbers of cattle and cowboys
9. The invention of barbed wire and wind pumps changed cattle ranching
10. By the end of the nineteenth century cattle were found on enclosed ranches

 

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