Texas
How did the introduction of barbed wire fences benefit farmers?
What is: Protecting crops from damage
This principle of government includes the Governor vetoing a bill but legislature overriding the veto
What is Checks and Balances
What amendment gives Americans the right to speak, write, or publish their opinions on any subject, as well as the right to practice their chosen religion?
What is the 1st amendment
What happened in 1861
Who served as the chief of the Comanche
Quanah Parker
How does the 4th amendment protect Americans rights
What is: Prohibits unreasonable searches/siezures
What was the first battle of the Civil War and who was the U.S. President at the time?
Battle of Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
What would be a major cause for rising populations in cities
What is the rise of industrialization or discovery of oil
What constitutional principle is described by being seperated by three distinct departments
Separation of Powers
What was the pre-civil war Compromise that agreed there would be no federal laws regarding slavery in the Mexican Cession, California would enter the U.S. as a free state, and there would be a stronger Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
How does the 6th amendment protect Americans rights?
What is the right to a speedy trial by jury in criminal cases
What reform movement was inspired because of poor working conditions in the US?
What is: labor unions formed
This Civil War battle in Texas opened up a Southern port when General John Magruder defeated the Union?
What is the Battle of Galveston
What happened in 1845
Texas was annexed by the United States
What country influenced names of cities in Southwest United States? Also the origin of the lasso, cowboy hats, and horse riding expertise?
What is Spain
How does the 8th amendment protect Americans rights?
What is: Prohibits excessive bail and cruel and extreme punishment for crimes
What river did the US claim was the border between Mexico and Texas?
What is the Rio Grande
What rights were effected by poll taxes and literacy tests?
What is the right to vote
What system of government was created as a result of the Great Storm of 1900
What is Commission System
What was the outcome of Sectionalism, States rights, and Slavery
What is the Civil War
How does the 19th Amendment extend the democratic process?
What is: increased women's suffrage
Who was the woman who formed the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps in WWII?
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby
Who did American cowboys borrow the methods of herding cattle on the open range from
What is Spanish Vaqueros
In 1917, state officials began to pass restrictions designed to control part of the oil industry. The agency originally enforced laws regarding the railroad industry. The agency was...
What is the Texas Railroad Commission?
What was the accomplishment of the Freedmens Bureau
Providing educational opportunities to newly freed men and women
Howard Hughes, Sr. did not discover oil at Spindle top. What was his major accomplishment in oil development?
He developed rotary drilling to efficiently drill for oil and became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Sharp-Hughes Rock Bit Company
What movement in the US worked to solve social and political issues
What is the Progressive Movement
What laws targeted African Americans rights after Reconstruction?
What is Black Codes
What was discovered in 1901
Oil in Spindletop
Former slaves and veterans from the Civil War. Their primary job in Texas was to protect white settlers from Native Americans on the frontier.
Buffalo Soldiers