Conflict, Cattle and Cotton: Important people Flashcards
Ulysses S. Grant
As part of his peace policy, President Grant tried to appoint federal agents who were sympathetic to Native Americans.
Quanah Parker
He refused to sign the treaty and led a band that fought to retian control of Native Americans lands for several years.
Cynthia Ann Parker
She moved with her parents to a fort in Central Texas. On May 19, 1836, a group of Comanche attacked Fort Parker. They rode off with five captives, and young Cynthia was one of them.
Satanta
He was a Kiowa war chief, was an outstanding warrior. He also know for his eloquent speeches.
James Hogg
He was an refomr-minded lawyer who was elected as state attornery general in 1886. He targeted the formation of trusts. He wanted to see an end to corrupt business practices in his state, and he lobbied for the passage of state antitrust law.
Renald S. Mackenzie
He was given command of a force charged with driving Native Americans from the Plains onto reservations.
Jessie Chisolm
When his parents split he then traveled with his mother, eventually settling on cherokee land in Oklahoma. He then began working as a trader, traveling througout the southwest.
Charles Goodnight
He and Mary Goodnight gave careful attention to cattle breeding and also rasied buffalo.
Oliver Loving
He and Charles Goodnight developed the Goodnight-Loving cattle trail
Richard King
He is the founder of Texases largest ranches. He bought an old spanish land grant of 15,550 acres in Nueces County.
Joseph Glidden
He invented the most successful type of barbed wire fences.
WIllima Techumseh Sherman
He belived that the reports of Native American attacking settlements in west Texas was an exaggerations. He decided to travel west and investigate the situation himself.
Susan B. Anthony
Marco Polo
