7th Grade TEKS Unit 8: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads & TX Frontier | Texas History

The 7th Grade Social Studies TEKS Unit 8: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads, and Closing the Texas Frontier (Texas History) COMPLETE Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for those teaching 7th grade Texas History! The resources included in this lesson plan unit follow the TEKS standards and come ready to use for BOTH in-person classroom and online digital learning via Google Apps!

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• Unit Outline with Lesson-by-Lesson Overview
• 10 highly curated presentations featuring built-in Discussion Based Questions (DBQ) & Exit Tickets in both PowerPoint (PPT) & Google Slides formats
• 23 student exercise assignments complete with teacher answer keys
• 38 links to supplemental videos on YouTube
• Guided Notes Handouts for students for every lesson
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• Unit Assessment with teacher answer key

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The Frontier Wars

• What events led to the Frontier Wars
• Role of Quanah Parker in the Frontier Wars
• The Buffalo Soldiers
• First & Second Battle of Adobe Walls, the Red River War, Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, and more
• Effects the Frontier Wars had on Native Americans and the settlement of West Texas
• Texas Native Americans on Reservations
• Role and historical significance of the Dawes Act

The Texas Cattle Boom

• How cattle ranching got its start in Texas
• The cowboy way of life
• Establishment of large, vast ranches
• Why ranchers performed cattle drives
• Famous cattle drive trails
• Factors that led to the end of large cattle drives
• The Longhorn - a new breed of cattle

Closing of the Texas Frontier

• The role of barbed wire
• Causes & effects of the Texas Range Wars
• What changes eventually led to the closing of the Texas frontier

Advances in Agriculture & Farming in Texas

• What new inventions helped farmers produce more crops
• Changes that helped farmers in Texas become commercial farmers
• Challenges to farming in Texas
• Tenant farming and sharecropping in Texas

Rise of Railroads in Texas

• How the building of railroads in Texas affected the cotton, lumber, coal, and cattle industries
• How settlement patterns in Texas changed as the railroads expanded
• Land grants for railroads
• Why the Texas Railroad Commission was created
• Wabash & Great Southwest Railroad strikes

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This incredible unit covers all of the following 7th grade social studies TEKS standards:

7.1A; 7.6A, 7.6B, 7.6C, 7.6D; 7.8C; 7.9A; 7.19C; 7.20B; 7.22A, 7.22B, 7.22C

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