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FLIPRCS
List the five rights guaranteed under the First Amendment?
Religion
Assembly
Press
Petition
Speech
Laws meant to limit the rights of former slaves
Black Code
Jim Crow Laws
Name given to the African American soldiers who protected the frontier
Buffalo Soldiers
Who were the first cowboys?
Spanish vaqueros
describe the effects of the expansion of the railroads
people migrated westward
ended cattle drives
provide farmers access to new markets
Protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your person, house, papers and effects.
What is the 4th Amendment
list a group who utilized violence as a political tactic.
KKK
As the frontier closed, farmers and ranchers engaged in what?
Fence cutting wars
What is the largest ranch in Texas Panhandle?
XIT Ranch
this word describes country living
rural
This founding principle of government creates three branches of government
what is separation of powers
Explain sharecropping and how it legally kept the freedmen in slavery
Freedmen were given land, and tools. They purchased seed on credit. When they harvested the crops, they were unable to pay the landowner back and entered a cycle of debt.
Which did not increase westward expansion?
Native American Population
Military Posts
Railroads
Conflicts with Native Americans
Native American Population
Cowboys led cows on this to take them to market.
Cattle drives
this word describes living in the cities
urban
This founding principle of government allows for one branch to protect the rights of the people by stopping another branch
Checks and balances
Explain what a freedmen was.
Former slave who was freed
What kept MOST people from settling in West Texas?
Native American attacks.
Adapted from a European model, it was used to pump water.
windmill / watermill
What was the number one cash crop and number one livestock of Texas?
Cotton and Cattle
This term refers to government sharing power between a central government and local state governments
What is Federalism
What was Lincoln's main goal during Reconstruction?
He wanted the South to reneter the Union as quickly as possible
Last Chief of the Comanches and helped assimilate Indians into the American culture.
Quanah Parker
This invention made of twisted wire with sharp barbs ended cattle drives
Barb wire
In the late 1800's, which animal was almost extinct? [hint: roamed in the plains]
Buffalo