Texas Revolution
The battle that only lasted 18 minutes.
What is The Battle of San Jacinto?
What is the name of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Side of the Civil war Texas was on (Confederate or Union).
What is the Confederates?
The 3 words that symbolize the meaning of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What is FREE CITIZENS VOTE?
The year spindletop began.
What is 1901?
The first cause of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Fredonian Rebellion?
The Constitution is based on 7 parts, the acronym for the seven is:
What is FLIPRCS?
One part of the Compromise of 1850 that benefitted the Confederates severely.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan sought.
What is rehabilitation of the South, not punishment?
The most prominent Texas oil company.
What is Texaco.
The military commander at the Alamo?
What is William B. Travis?
The definition of Federalism.
What is a system of government where power is shared between the central (or federal or national) government and state governments?
Considered the most influential and tactically strong general in the Civil War.
What is Robert E. Lee?
When cattle drives usually occurred?
What is 1867 to 1887?
The event that ushered in the spindletop era.
What is the Lucas Geyser eruption?
What Juan Seguin did.
What is a loyal Tejano who left the Alamo to take a message to Houston, and fought at San Jacinto.
The amount of senators out of 31 that need to agree to consider a bill.
What is 16?
The explanation of Bloody Kansas.
What is the 5 year long war in Kansas that occurred because of popular vote on whether or not slavery would be accepted in Kansas?
The foundational governing document of Texas and still remains the law of the land today.
What is the Texas Constitution of 1876?
The industrial port that passed Galveston after the hurricane and the ship channel name.
What is the Houston commercial port and the Houston Ship Channel?
The Great Retreat.
What is when in 1836, Tejanos left in mass numbers from their homes to escape Santa Anna’s approaching army?
Why a veto issued by the Governor after the legislative session ends completely immune to a lawmaker override.
What is because the legislature is no longer in session to vote?
The state that contributed most to the Union’s victory against the Confederates.
What is Pennsylvania (New York and Ohio accepted too)?
How the Texas Constitution of 1866 and the Texas Constitution of 1869 treat freed African Americans different from others, and which group of politicians wrote each document.
What is 1866 Constitution restricted rights for freedmen, while 1869 Constitution expanded them? The Radical Republicans was what they were written by?
How Texas went from a New Deal stronghold to a modern American Conservation between 1932-44.
What is they used a stepped pipeline that moved anti New Deal anger hit of private boardrooms directly to voting booths?