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Potpourri 2
Short Answer Questions
100
Trusts in the late 1800s reduced this.
What is free trade or competition?
100
This was a social organization set up to reform the farming industry.
What is the Grange?
100

After regaining control of the Texas legislature, Democrats limited the power of of the state government via this document.

What is the Constitution of 1876?
100
Why was the growth of railroads vital to the expansion of the Texas economy?

Settlement increased rapidly because people moved onto lands that the railroads sold to them. Rail lines carried settlers to the western parts of the state. New towns grew up by railroad stops. Commercial centers such as Dallas and Houston grew because they had multiple railroad connections. Trains were also important in carrying crops from farms to markets.

200

Railroad monopolies hurt farmers by charging whatever rates they wanted to ship this.

What is a farmer's crop?

200
The Texas Railroad Commission stopped these.
What are unfair practices of the railroad industry?
200

This is teaching males and females in the same classes.

What is coeducation?
200

How could a trust become powerful enough to bankrupt other companies? What would be the result of a trust?

Companies formed trusts to eliminate competition. They could lower prices until they had a monopoly, or exclusive control, of the industry.  When there was no competition, trusts could fix high prices.  Farmers and consumers could not protect themselves against such unfair practices.
300
Farmers and merchants wanted railroads to expand so they could do this.
What is market their goods?
300
This organization set rules for railroads connecting two or more states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
300
Refrigerated rail cars gave rise to the development of this industry in Texas.
What is meatpacking?
300

Describe the homestead provisions that were included in the Constitution of 1876.

The Constitution of 1876 carried on a Texas tradition by including a homestead provision. A homestead provision meant that any head of family without a homestead could claim 160 acres of public land. A man had to live on the land for three years to secure it. The homestead was protected from creditors who looked for payments of outstanding debt.

400
The most important and valuable industry in Texas in 1900 was this.
What is lumbering?
400

This group was reorganized by the Texas legislature to provide law and order in Texas in the late 1800s.

What is the Texas Rangers?

400
Most Texans who became Populists were this.
What are poor farmers?
500
Between 1875 and 1900, prices of cotton and other farm products in Texas did this.
What is generally went down?
500

Farmers’ groups, such as the Farmers’ Alliance, formed cooperatives for their members for this reason.

What is farmers could buy supplies more cheaply under jointly owned stores?

500

She was the first female newspaper publisher in Texas.

Who is Lydia Starr McPherson?