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Texas Frontier
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100
A _________ is the farthest part of a settled country, next to lands that are not yet settled.
What is a frontier?
100
A ________ was a large farm that produced crops to sell.
What is plantation?
100
In 1865 the U.S. government set up the __________to help African Americans find jobs and homes.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
_________ was elected President of the United States in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
___________ was a war between Union and Confederate states over slavery and states' rights.
What is the Civil War?
200
__________ is an economic system in which producers and consumers have the right to make choices.
What is free enterprise?
200
________ is to reject, national laws that they did not like.
What is nullify?
200
A ___________ is a farmer who pays part of the crops he or she grows to a landowner.
What is a sharecropper?
200
____________was named President of the Confederacy in 1861.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
________ was the period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
300
A _________ is the money a producer has left over after all the costs of making or selling the goods are paid.
What is a profit?
300
The ________ is a army unit who fought on horseback.
What is the cavalry?
300
The Civil War ends in ________.
What is 1865?
300
________was a Confederate general during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
___________freed all enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Name three ways settlers earned a living in Texas during the 1850's.
What is farming, ranching, selling goods, offering services?
400
Union ships would ________ or block, ports.
What is a blockade?
400
Texas rejoined the United States on ________.
What is March 30, 1870?
400
__________ was a Union general during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
________ is when a state seperated from the nation
What is secede?
500
________ was held in Dallas in 1886.
What is Texas State Fair?
500
Texas seceded from the Union on ________.
What is March 2, 1861?
500
Slaves were freed in Texas in this year.
What is 1865?
500
___________ rode through Texas in 1865 to announce that slaves were free.
Who is General Gordon Granger?
500
__________ was captured by Union ships in October 1862.
What is Galveston Harbor?