Native Americans
Which two groups fought in the Indian Wars?
Native Americans
vs
American Settlers
Which two towns were considered oil boomtowns?
Houston and Beaumont
What is tenant farming?
When someone couldn't afford to buy land so they rented land. Many people went into debt.
What form of transportation increases the population in West Texas during the late 1800s?
Trains / Railroads
What three industries are successful after the Civil War?
Cotton, Cattle, Oil
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers ordered to protect?
American settlers
Housing, lumber (wood), and basically all products
What was the conflict called between the FARMERS and the RANCHERS?
What did the ranchers cut?
Range Wars
Barbed wire
Before railroads, how were cattle transported north?
Be descriptive
Cattle Drives
Cattle were walked / herded by cowboys on horses. It took multiple weeks or months.
What is suffrage?
What is labor?
What do they have to do with this unit?
Suffrage = right to vote
Labor = work
Women got the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. Labor Reforms were passed to make working conditions better.
The all African-American regiment in the US Army were called the ______ ________
Buffalo Soldiers
A ________ experiences an _______in population, and then a ________ in population.
Boomtown
Increase
Decrease
What sector of the economy increased after the Civil War?
What invention helped protect livestock from being stolen?
Cattle
Barbed wire
What do railroads and barbed wire have in common?
They both closed the frontier.
What was James Hogg against?
Monopolies and Trusts
(Business working together and keeping prices high)
Why did the Indian Wars start?
Because the settlers were building railroads and towns on the Natives' land.
What is the structure called for drilling oil?
Oil Derrick
The ______ ________focused on agrarian (agriculture) reform.
Populist Party
Who invented the Model T?
Henry Ford
After the _______ Hurricane of 1900 a ____ ______ was built, and people moved away from the _______.
Galveston
Sea Wall
Coast
Who was the last Comanche chief?
What is the MAIN thing he was remembered for?
Quanah Parker
Convinced other Native Americans to assimilate to American culture.
Which cardinal direction of Texas experienced the most "boom" during the early discovery of oil?
East
Who was the first native Texas Governor?
What did he try to prevent? (Two things)
Which group of people did this help?
James Hogg
Monopolies and Trusts
Farmers
The Populist Party advocated for which group of people?
The party affected what type of transportation? How?
People working in agriculture (agrarian). Farmers!
Trains
The populist party broke up railroad monopolies
What is the Progressive Movement?
What did they belive about education?
Period when many reforms (changes) were passed that helped the common man, such as Child Labor reforms and Women's Suffrage.
Educated people = better workforce and better economy.