The Republic & Early Statehood
The first President of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
Sectionalism
What is the extreme devotion to one region of the country?
The reason farmers in Missouri blocked cattle drives from Texas
What is Texas Fever?
The largest and wealthiest city in Texas at the turn of the 20th century
What is Galveston?
October 29, 1929
What is black Tuesday?
Debt, Threat of Native Americans, & Threat of Mexican Invasion
What were problems facing the Republic?
Henry Clay
Who was "The Great Compromiser"?
Weather, Indian attacks, river crossings, stampedes
What were some challenges facing cowboys on cattle drives?
The deadliest natural disaster in American history
What is the Great Storm of 1900?
Overproduction & underconsumption, bank runs, and lack of regulation
What were some causes of the Great Depression
Manifest Destiny
what is a reason people in the U.S. would have wanted Texas to become a state?
Texas did not want any free land in their state
Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle?
The price of beef was four times more in northern cities than it was in Texas
Why did cattle drives start?
Spindletop
Where was oil found in Texas in 1901?
The president of the U.S. at the start of the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The Nueces River
What did Mexico believe to be the border between Texas and Mexico?
The most lopsided battle of the Civil War
What was the Battle of Sabine Pass?
The invention that blocked cattle drive routes and caused disputes between ranchers, farmers and cowboys
What is barbed wire?
How long oil shot into the air before it could be capped
What is nine days?
An economy based on the free exchange between the producer and the consumer
What is Free Enterprise?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
Who built forts along the Texas frontier to limit interaction between settlers and Native Americans?
The plan to cut the South off from supply routes
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Railroad lines expanded into Texas
Why did cattle drives end?
The business cycle
What is Boom & Bust?
Laissez-Faire
What is the belief that the government should not interfere in the economy?