Civil War
This is the side Texas joined in the Civil War?
What is the Confederacy.
Laws made by Southern states to limit the rights of freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes
routes cowboys took to move cattle to the railroads for sale
What are Cattle Trails
It allowed supplies and people to be easily and cheaply sent anywhere
What are railroads
Name given to former slaves
What are freedmen
This was the most important crop grown in the South?
What is Cotton
These were the REASONS for Reconstruction.
What are:
get rid of slavery, to enforce equal rights for Black Americans, reunite the nation
Thieves, weather, stampedes
What were the dangers running the cattle trail?
All cattle drives headed north due to this reason
What are railroads
Laws that hindered African American rights and segregated them.
What were "Jim Crow" laws?
This battle was important because it was at a port city
Battle of Galveston
This agency provided food, shelter, education, and labor contracts for freedmen.
This ended the era of cattle drives
What is barbed wire.
This allowed for the cities of Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and Houston to grow rapidly
What is the Expansion of the railroads in Texas
Machine using wind power to pull water to the ground.
What is a wind mill
The act of leaving the United States to join the Confederacy.
What is secession?
This amendment ended slavery
3 am to 9 PM
What is the working hours of a cowboy
Cowboys became this after cattle drives ended.
What are Cattle ranchers.
Railroads, Windmills, the telegraph, the killing of buffalo and moving Indians to reservations all lead to this
What is westward expansion
This battle happened AFTER the Civil War ended?
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch
General Granger: officially announcement that declared enslaved people in Texas are free.
What is Juneteenth
Spanish Missionaries began this industry.
What is Cattle Ranching
Due to the expansion of railroads these began to grow in Texas.
What are cities, industries, population
Chief of the Comanche, Fought US Army in West Texas wars, Signed Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty, Lived on a reservation
Who is Quanah Parker