Civil War and Reconstruction
Texas joined this side during the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
This invention impacted the expanding cattle business as a part of the ranching industry
What is Barbed Wire?
750,000 Texans entered the military to defeat the Nazis in Europe and this country in the Pacific
What is Japan?
This law was passed in 1965, giving all people the right to vote
What is The Voting Rights Act?
Due process and equal protection guaranteed to all citizens are both examples of this
What are individual rights?
Texans were influenced by _______ to enter the civil war
What is slavery?
Texans need to conserve _____because the demand for ________by communities and farms is rapidly increasing
What is water?
What is The New Deal?
This holiday is celebrated in Texas because it is the day slaves learned of their freedom
What is Juneteenth?
This principle of government states that the duties are split btween three branches
What is separation of powers?
Southern states pass Black Codes, Texas Constitution of 1866 is adopted, Freedmen's Bureau is created are all effects of this
What is Reconstruction?
In 1901 the discovery of oil at Spindletop was the start of the this industry
What is petroleum?
During the 1930s Texas economy was negatively impacted by this
What is The Dust Bowl
This court case desegregated Texas public schools
What is US v Texas
This branch rules on constitutionality of a law and hears appeals in civil and criminal cases
What is the Judicial Branch?
This document was issued by Abraham Lincoln as a way to abolish slavery
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Lyne Barret drilled an oil well at Oil Springs, Houard Huges developed a new oil bit to break rock are all ______s of the Age of Oil
What are causes?
This group of people took new jobs in factories, along with minority groups.
What is Women?
This Texans was president during the Civil Rights era
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This branch serves as the commander-in-chief of the military and enforcing laws made by the legislature
What is The Executive Branch?
Because he got elected, Texas succeeded from the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was developed to pave highways during the age of oil
What is asphalt?
This industry expanded during WWII with Gulf coast refineries
What is the petrochemical industry?
After the Civil Rights Era, people moved to Texas because of this
What is the warmer climate?
Texans directly participate in their state's criminal justice and court system by doing this