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Define secession.
What is the act of withdrawing from something, such as a nation?
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This is why the Union won the American Civil War.
What was its superior industry and infrastructure?
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This is how Reconstruction make Texans feel about government.
What is they disliked powerful government and they created a weak government afterward?
100
Define checks and balances.
What is a system in which each branch of government has the power to block the actions of the others?
100
This is what happened during Era 8.
What were cattle drives from Texas, open range closed, and railroads were built?
200
Secession caused this event.
What is the American Civil War?
200
Define suffrage.
What is the right to vote?
200
Put these events in chronological order: Texas joined the Confederacy, Texas readmitted to the Union, Texas was annexed by the U.S., Texas won its independence.
What is Texas won its independence, Texas was annexed by the U.S., Texas joined the Confederacy, and Texas readmitted to the Union?
200
Define bicameral.
What is made of up of two houses or chambers?
200
This is how the end of the American Civil War affected the Texas cattle industry.
What is the demand for beef in the eastern U.S. brought large growth to the industry?
300
This is the year Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
What is 1861?
300
This amendment gave African American men suffrage.
What is the 15thc Amendment?
300
This is the year the current Texas Constitution was written.
What is 1876?
300
In criminal cases this is how many jurors must agree on a verdict.
What is all `of da people
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This is why the Plains Indians moved to reservations in the 1870s.
What is the U.S. killed all the buffalo and nearly drove them to starvation?
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This is why Texas and other southern states seceded.
What was they thought that slavery would be abolished when Abraham Lincoln was elected president?
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Define Reconstruction. j
What is the federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the American Civil War?
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Define federalism.
What is a system in which a national and a local government share power?
400
This is what trial courts do.
What is hear civil and criminal cases and reach verdicts?
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This is how the growth of railroads changed Texas.
What is cattle drives and the open range ended, new towns grew along the rail lines, and Texans moved from subsistence to commercial farming?
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This is how long the American Civil War lasted.
What is 4 years?
500
This is the year in which a constitution was forced on Texans by the Radical Republicans during Congressional Reconstruction.
What is 1869? :)
500
Define separation of powers.
What is the division of the functions of government among branches in order to prevent any one branch from having too much power?
500
This is how many counties Texas has.
What is 254?
500
This invention closed the open range and how it was used.
What is barbed wire? What is it kept cattle from getting into farmers' fields?