The Republic of Texas & Early Statehood
The first president of the Republic
Who is Sam Houston?
The Union strategy to cut the Southern states off from supply routes
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Bad weather, river crossings, Indian attacks, disease, and stampedes
What were some of the dangers facing cowboys on cattle drives?
The largest and wealthiest city in Texas at the turn of the 20th century
What is Galveston?
The president at the beginning of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Threat from hostile natives, debt, recognition from other countries
What were problems facing the Republic?
Providing soldiers, supplies, money and food to the Confederate Army
What was the role of Texas in the Civil War?
Texas Fever
Why did farmers from Missouri stop cattle from Texas coming into their state?
The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history
What was the Great Storm of 1900?
What is Black Tuesday?
The Nueces River
What did Mexico believe to be the border between Texas and Mexico?
Texas did not want any free land
Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle?
What is barbed wire?
Spindletop
Where was the first large oil field in Texas discovered in 1901?
Bank runs, lack of regulations, overproduction and under consumption
What are some factors that lead to the Great Depression?
Manifest Destiny
Why did some people in the U.S. want Texas to become a state?
The most lopsided battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
Railroad lines expanded into Texas
What led to the end of cattle drives?
Boom & Bust
What is the business cycle?
The 3 R's
What are Relief, Reform and Recovery?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
What was department that built forts along the Texas frontier to try to limit interactions between settlers and Native Americans?
What is Sectionalism?
The price of beef was four times higher in northern cities
What led to the start of cattle drives?
How long oil shot in the air at Spindletop before it was capped
What is nine days?
Laissez-Faire
What is the belief that the government should not be involved in the economy?