Civil War
The union blockaded this popular port.
What is Galveston?
These are protected in the Bill of Rights.
What are individual rights?
Income
What is revenue?
This type of tax is added to the cost of items sold
What is sales tax?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This cash crop was very popular and lucrative in the south.
What is cotton?
This branch includes the President or the Governor.
What is the Executive branch?
Tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop
What is a sharecropper?
This type of tax is based on the value of your house or land.
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Texas was required to do this before rejoining the Union after the war.
What is rewrite the Texas Constitution?
This branch includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial branch?
Electing representatives
What is republicanism?
What is local government?
Texans believed in this, which said they should be able to reject any national law they disagreed with.
What is states' rights?
What is corn and wheat?
The Texas Constitution has significantly more of these than the U.S. Constitution.
What are Bill of Rights?
OR
What are amendments?
The period of time after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This is primarily funded by property taxes.
What is public school?
Slow communication in Texas caused this (2 things)
What is delayed emancipation and continued fighting?
The three main transportation systems during the Civil War.
What are railroads, stagecoaches, and boats?
Both the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution include this.
What is Bill of Rights?
This principle says that power is inherent to the people
What is popular sovereignty?
What is 8.25%?