COTTON CATTLE AND RAILROADS

important TIMELINES 🎉😁

• -Economic growth through cotton
• -Economic growth through Cattle
• -Economic growth through the use of Railroads

Cotton Facts:

-Production exploded after the Civil War
-In 1869, 350,628 bails were produced

-By 1900, 3.5 million bales were produced

-For many Texans cotton became a very high price
-family became and the sharecroppers where as young as four years old

CATTLE

• Texas had been a cattle country since the 1800 century
• the longhorns started to sell a lot in the northern states
• they sold started to sell cattle all the way to Canada

RAILROADS

• railroads would bring people business and new city to Texas
• after civil war many miles of track where built and brought to the state
• the effect was people where able to bring goods for farmer

by Mason Finley
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