The Republic of Texas & Early Statehood
The Civil War & Reconstruction
Cotton, Cattle & Railroads
The Age of Oil
The Great Depression & Dust Bowl
100

The first president of the Republic

Who is Sam Houston?

100

The Union strategy to cut the Southern states off from supply routes

What was the Anaconda Plan?

100

Bad weather, river crossings, Indian attacks, disease, and stampedes

What were some of the dangers facing cowboys on cattle drives?

100

The largest and wealthiest city in Texas at the turn of the 20th century

What is Galveston?

100

The president at the beginning of the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover?

200

Threat from hostile natives, debt, recognition from other countries

What were problems facing the Republic?

200

Providing soldiers, supplies, money and food to the Confederate Army

What was the role of Texas in the Civil War?

200

Texas Fever

Why did farmers from Missouri stop cattle from Texas coming into their state?

200

The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history

What was the Great Storm of 1900?

200
October 29, 1929

What is Black Tuesday?

300

The Nueces River

What did Mexico believe to be the border between Texas and Mexico?

300

Texas did not want any free land

Why does Oklahoma have a panhandle?

300
The invention that blocked cattle drive routes and created disputes between farmers, ranchers and cowboys

What is barbed wire?

300

Spindletop

Where was the first large oil field in Texas discovered in 1901?

300

Bank runs, lack of regulations, overproduction and under consumption

What are some factors that lead to the Great Depression?

400

Manifest Destiny

Why did some people in the U.S. want Texas to become a state?

400

The most lopsided battle of the Civil War

What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?

400

Railroad lines expanded into Texas

What led to the end of cattle drives?

400

Boom & Bust

What is the business cycle?

400

The 3 R's

What are Relief, Reform and Recovery?

500

The Bureau of Indian Affairs

What was department that built forts along the Texas frontier to try to limit interactions between settlers and Native Americans?

500
The extreme devotion to one region of the country over others

What is Sectionalism?

500

The price of beef was four times higher in northern cities

What led to the start of cattle drives?

500

How long oil shot in the air at Spindletop before it was capped

What is nine days?

500

Laissez-Faire

What is the belief that the government should not be involved in the economy?