Civil War/Reconstruction
This cause of the Civil War involved the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the creation of the Republican Party.
What is the expansion of slavery?
A Bill of Rights usually contains this principle of the Constitution.
What is individual rights?
These people were the cowboys.
Who are African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Women?
This is the year that petroleum was discovered in Texas.
What is 1901?
He has a fort in Texas named after him due to his participation at Gettysburg and in other battles outside of Texas.
Who is John Bell Hood?
This was the last battle of the Civil War, occurring almost a month after the South surrendered to the Union.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
In Texas we have these 3 levels of government.
What is municipal, county, and state?
This caused a war to break out between farmers and ranchers. Some used it to claim land that didn't belong to them.
What is barbed wire?
This is where oil was discovered first in Texas?
What is Spindletop?
He was a civil war general who would become the 19th Governor of Texas and President of A&M University.
Who is Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross?
The expansion westward following the Civil War would lead to this.
What is the Indian Wars?
This principle divides power between a national, state, and local government which can then lead to this principle dividing power at the national level, dividing power at the state level, and dividing their power at the local level.
What is Federalism and Separation of Powers?
This is why railroads where important in Texas.
What is they allowed cattle and cotton to move quickly to market, and people to move quickly from place to place?
This contribution by Howard Hughes Sr. made it possible to find petroleum in places we couldn't before.
What are drill bits?
He was a Progressive Governor of Texas who supported the creation of the Railroad Commission and an Anti-Trust Act.
Who is James Hogg?
This occurred when Congress gained control and created 5 military districts in the former Confederacy while trying to put the Union back together.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
Many confuse these two principles of the Constitution. One involves electing representatives to rule and the other involves the people being in power.
What is republicanism and popular sovereignty?
This was used to bring water from underground after ranches and farmers were fenced in from sources of water.
What is the windmill?
These sprang up when petroleum was discovered and then would usually disappear before too long.
What are boom towns?
He was in the General in charge of the troops in Texas during the Civil War and this man led troops at the Battle of Galveston on one of the steamboats the General planned.
Who is John Magruder & Thomas Green?
This job was created once freedmen became eligible to earn a wage to try to create a new form of slavery.
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
This was the difference in the purpose of writing the U.S. Constitution vs. the Texas Constitution.
What is the U.S. gave more power to the central government while the Texas limited the power of the state government?
This cycle occurs when cotton, cattle, or railroads were doing well, over did things, and business was then lost.
What is the Boom Bust Cycle?
This is how Texas ranks on the petroleum world market.
What is one of the top, if not top petroleum producers in the world?
This was the occupation of Lizzie Johnson Williams, Bose Ikard, and Maria del Carmen Calvillo.
What are cowboys?