General History
Events
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Vocabulary
100

Texas was the ____ state to secede?

What is: 7th state

100

When was the Alamo? 

When is: 1836

100

Who invented the Cotton Gin? 

Who is: Eli Whitney

100

What admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state? 

What is: The Compromise of 1820

100

What is the idea that it was a God-given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean? 

What is: Manifest Destiny

200

How did Texas contribute to World War I?

What is: 

-Oil production

-1 million Texans registered for the War.

-Built many notable military bases

-Helped with food production through agriculture. Rationing too such as Meatless Mondays. 


200

What happened at the Appomattox Courthouse?

What is: Lee surrenders to Grant

200

Who was the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence? 

Who is: George Childress

200

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

What is: 

-Admit California as a free state 

-Established a boundary between Texas and the United States 

-Abolished the slave trade in Washington, DC 

-Amended the Fugitive Slave Act 

-New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery (popular sovereignty) 

200

What is an abolitionist? 

What is: an individual who sought to abolish (get rid of) slavery. 

300

What was the Dust Bowl? 

What is: severe drought coupled with overharvesting around the time of the Great Depression.

300

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? 

Who is: John Wilkes Booth 

300

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, what book explored the life of an enslaved person?

What is: Uncle Tom's Cabin

300

What did the 13th amendment do?

What is: granted freedom for formerly enslaved people. 

300

What is secession? 

What is: when a territory formerly withdraws from another country. 

400

What was the Zimmermann telegram about?

What is: Germany provoking Mexico to start a border war. 

400

This event marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry in the U.S.

What is: Spindletop (1901)

400

What invention brought about an end to the era of Cowboys?

What is: Joseph Glidden's Barbed Wire 

400


What was the office that acted as a simple welfare agency, trying to help those transition from enslavement to freedom.

What is: the Freedmen's Bureau 

400

What was temperance? 

What is: a movement that sought to restrict drinking. 

500

What are all 6 flags that have flown over Texas?

What is: 

-Kingdom of Spain

-Kingdom of France

-Republic of Mexico

-Republic of Texas

-Confederacy

-United States of America

500

What year was  the 19th amendment passed and ratified?

What is: 1920

500

Who was credited as patenting the first commercially successful bulb in 1879? 

Who is: Thomas Edison 

500

What are Black Codes?

What is: legislation that sought to restrict the rights of the Black community. (Keep them in bondage)

500

What is popular sovereignty?  

What is: power is vested in the will of the people.  

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