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

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2 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

3 The Cattle Kingdom and Farming on the Great Plains

4 Cattle Drive!

5 How did the Cattle Boom Begin/End? Texas LonghornTough, 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

6 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

7 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

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9 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


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