Texas Civil War/Cattle

Texas Dates

100

The year the Civil War began

1861

200

Juneteenth, or July 19

Date when African American Texans learned they had been freed

300

These are the years the mark the beginning and ending of  Reconstruction

1865-1877

400

Last year of the Civil War

1865

500

By this date, the frontier was closed to cattle drives and a massive Hurricane devastated Galveston

1900

Inventions

100

This closed off the open range forever to cattle drives

Barbed Wire

200

Used in West Texas to draw water from the ground for cattle

Windmill

300

This invention helped created faster transportation that tamed the West in only a few decades

The Railroad

400

This invention helped ensure that slavery was profitable by making it easier to clean a particular cash crop easier

Cotton Gin

500

He created a Railroad Commission to prevent corruption in the booming railroad industry

James Hogg

Native Americans

100

This was the last chief of the Comanche

Quanah Parker

200

This was the White mother of the last chief of the Comanche

Cynthia Ann Parker

300

This was the last Indian policy put forth by the US government in 1874

Kill all the American Buffalo

400

This is the large reservation created by the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867 which few Indians wanted to move to

Oklahoma (Indian Territory)

500

This group of people continuously entered the Indian Reservations to take their food and way of life from the Native Americans. 

Buffalo Hunters

Reconstruction

100

This Christian hate group targeted minorities and anyone who supported minorities after the Civil War

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

200

This amendment freed all slaves in the US

13th Amendment

300

This group was made up of Civil War Veteran soldiers who were African American by ethnicity. They fought along the Texas Frontier and got their name from the Native Americans for their fortitude and bravery

Buffalo Soldiers

400

This amendment outlaws the black codes put into place by Southern States after the Civil War by making them Americans

the 14th Amendment

500

This group came down to help ensure former slaves were given the proper food, shelter, and ability to find meaningful work.

Freedman's Bureau 

Flashback

100

Region of Texas known for the most rain and lowest elevation

Coastal Plains

200

Plains tribes moved often, following the buffalo. This makes them....

Nomads

300

Sam Houston was the first man to hold which TWO offices?

President of Texas and Governor of Texas

400

De Pineda's map was created and Cortes conquered the Aztecs in this year

1519

500

Texas Independence Day

March 2, 1836