The Republic & Early Statehood
The Civil War & Reconstruction
Cotton, Cattle & Railroads
The Age of Oil
The Great Depression
100

The first President of the Republic of Texas

Who is Sam Houston?

100

Sectionalism

What is the extreme devotion to one region of the country?

100

The reason farmers in Missouri blocked cattle drives from Texas

What is Texas Fever?

100

The largest and wealthiest city in Texas at the turn of the 20th century

What is Galveston?

100

October 29, 1929

What is black Tuesday?

200

Debt, Threat of Native Americans, & Threat of Mexican Invasion

What were problems facing the Republic?

200

Henry Clay

Who was "The Great Compromiser"?

200

Weather, Indian attacks, river crossings, stampedes

What were some challenges facing cowboys on cattle drives?

200

The deadliest natural disaster in American history

What is the Great Storm of 1900?

200

Overproduction & underconsumption, bank runs, and lack of regulation

What were some causes of the Great Depression

300

Manifest Destiny

what is a reason people in the U.S. would have wanted Texas to become a state?

300

Texas did not want any free land in their state

Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle?

300

The price of beef was four times more in northern cities than it was in Texas

Why did cattle drives start?

300

Spindletop

Where was oil found in Texas in 1901?

300

The president of the U.S. at the start of the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover?

400

The Nueces River

What did Mexico believe to be the border between Texas and Mexico?

400

The most lopsided battle of the Civil War

What was the Battle of Sabine Pass?

400

The invention that blocked cattle drive routes and caused disputes between ranchers, farmers and cowboys

What is barbed wire?

400

How long oil shot into the air before it could be capped

What is nine days?

400

An economy based on the free exchange between the producer and the consumer

What is Free Enterprise?

500

The Bureau of Indian Affairs

Who built forts along the Texas frontier to limit interaction between settlers and Native Americans?

500

The plan to cut the South off from supply routes

What was the Anaconda Plan?

500

Railroad lines expanded into Texas

Why did cattle drives end?

500

The business cycle 

What is Boom & Bust?

500

Laissez-Faire

What is the belief that the government should not interfere in the economy?

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