RECONSTRUCTION & REDEMPTION
What holiday celebrates the day enslaved Texans learned they were free?
What is Juneteenth?
What famous Kiowa leader became known for his speeches and resistance against settlers?
Who is Satanta?
What cattle trail carried herds from Texas to Kansas railheads after the Civil War?
What is the Chisholm Trail?
What early 1900s reform movement fought for regulation, moral reform, and education?
What is Progressivism?
What environmental disaster devastated Texas farms in the 1930s?
What is the Dust Bowl?
Who served as provisional governor during early Reconstruction and tried to balance Union loyalty with local opposition?
Who is Andrew Jackson Hamilton?
What 1874 battle between buffalo hunters and Native warriors triggered the Red River War?
What is the Battle of Adobe Walls?
Which two cattlemen created a trail to Colorado and New Mexico markets?
Who were Goodnight and Loving?
Which movement to ban alcohol divided urban and rural Texans?
What is Prohibition?
What New Deal program put young men to work in parks and forests?
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
What federal agency helped freedmen with education and labor contracts after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Which war (1874–75) marked the final defeat of the Comanche and Kiowa in Texas?
What is the Red River War?
What 1901 oil strike transformed Texas’s economy and started the oil boom?
What is Spindletop?
What hate group revived in the 1920s and gained power in Texas politics?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What New Deal agency built schools, roads, and murals across Texas?
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
What group of conservative Democrats “took back” Texas politics after Reconstruction?
Who were the Redeemers?
What violent conflict over communal salt lakes in El Paso showed postwar ethnic tensions?
What was the Salt War of 1877?
What oil-rich geological area made Midland and Odessa major energy centers?
What is the Permian Basin?
Who was Texas’s first woman governor, known for opposing the KKK?
Who is “Ma” Miriam Ferguson?
What WWII program brought Mexican workers to Texas farms?
What is the Bracero Program?
What 1876 event marked the end of Reconstruction policies in Texas?
What is the adoption of the Texas Constitution of 1876 (Redeemer Constitution)?
During what event did revolutionary unrest in Mexico spill across the border into Texas in 1915?
What is the Plan de San Diego?
What pair of 19th-century political movements sought to help struggling Texas farmers through inflation and reform?
What are the Greenback and Populist Parties?
What radio personality-turned-governor used “Ten Commandments” rhetoric to win elections?
Who is W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel?
What WWII hero from Texas became the most decorated U.S. soldier and later a movie star?
Who is Audie Murphy?