Texas Government
Civil War & Reconstruction
Conflict on the Frontier
Cattle & Cotton
Challenges & Progress
100
Republican form of government, freedom of worship, freedom of speech and the press, and the right to bear arms are guaranteed ideals here.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This event caused Texas to Secede from the Union.
What is the election of Lincoln?
100
Describe the Range Wars in Texas.
What is farmers and ranchers fought over fencing?
100
This is why numerous trails were added to Texas after the Civil War.
What is support for the Cattle industry?
100
After the Civil War, the expansion of the railroads and the availability of cheap, plentiful land encouraged settlers to move further west into West Texas and the Panhandle. In order to make farming there possible, farmers implemented this method.
What is dry farming?
200
This is one way the Texas and U.S. Bill of Rights differ.
What is the Texas Bill of Rights provides more protections?
200
This is the day the slaves were freed in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
200
The Texas-Indian Wars of 1820-1875 consisted of bloody battles between these two groups.
Who are settlers and Native Americans?
200
These were the very first cowboys.
Who were Spanish Vaqueros?
200
This is a negative effect of the growth of railroads in Texas and the Great Plains.
What is the lifestyle of Native Americans?
300
This is one way that the U.S. and Texas governments address the issue of limited government.
What is Separation of powers?
300
This was the biggest effect of the new Texas Constitution on African Americans after the Civil War.
What is the Right to Vote?
300
These men shaped Texas by guarding the frontier.
Who were Buffalo Soldiers?
300
This is one way that the expansion of agriculture affect the economy in Texas.
What is farmers began selling cash crops?
300
These are some of the effects of farming in Texas in the 19th Century.
What are:
400
This concept relies on a split between state and federal government.
What is Federalism?
400
These were some of the effects of Reconstruction on the South.
What are Southern states pass black codes, and the Freedmen's Bureau is created?
400
This event had the greatest impact on the lifestyle of the American Indian.
What is the killing of the buffalo?
400
This was the reason for the growth of the cattle industry in the 19th Century.
What is demand for beef in the Northern states?
400
This invention confined livestock and closed the open range.
What is barbed wire?
500
This political ideal allows the citizens or "people" to rule by voting.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
This is how the Texas economy changed just AFTER the Civil War.
What is it became Sharecropping based?
500
This was the effect of land, longhorns, and railroads on Texas after the Civil War.
What is expansion of the Texas Frontier?
500
Describe the differences between sharecropping and tenant farming.
Tenant farmers were usually able to make a profit while sharecropping ensured that the farmer remained in debt.
500
During the Civil War, the North had more resources than the South in every category except for this.
What is farmland?