Question 1

What was the Civil War?

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U.S. War involving the Union (north) and the Confederacy (south) 1861-1865

Question 2

Battle of Palmito Ranch

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Fought along the Rio Grande. Final battle of American Civil War.

Question 3

John B. Magruder

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The Confederate colonel from Texas who won the Battle of Galveston

Question 4

Sharecropper

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A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

Question 5

Separation of Power

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Dividing power among several branches of government; Legislative, Executive, Judicial

Question 6

Juneteenth

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June 19, 1865; the date slaves were declared free in Texas

Question 7

Sam Houston

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Commander of the Texan forces. 1st & 3rd president of Texas

Question 8

Buffalo Soldier

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African American members of the 9th and 10th Cavalries

Question 9

Urbanization

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Movement of people from rural areas to cities

Question 10

Rural

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The countryside

Question 11

James Hogg

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Texas Governor that set up the Texas Railroad Commission

Question 12

Boom & Bust Cycle

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A period of great economic growth followed by a downward trend in the industry

Question 13

Progressivism

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Political movement that pushed for better workplace conditions

Question 14

Populism

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A political movement that was against city banks and big business but favored the common farmer

Question 15

Dust Bowl

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A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

Question 16

The New Deal

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Domestics policies created by FDR to get the United States out of the Great Depression

Question 17

Primary Source

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Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

Question 18

Secondary Source

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A document or written work created after an event

Question 19

The Great Depression

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1929-1939. A time period of economic decline which resulted in mass unemployment

Question 20

Voting

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A right and responsibility

Question 21

Civil Rights

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The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

Question 22

Compromise of 1850

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(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

Question 23

Texas Rangers

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Defense force that tried to keep the peace along the Texas frontier

Question 24

Annexation

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The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

Question 25

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million

Question 26

Causes of the Civil War

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States' rights, Sectionalism, and tariffs

Question 27

Confederacy

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The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Question 28

Industrialization

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The development of industries for the machine production of goods.

Question 29

Sectionalism

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Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole

Question 30

Spanish influence on Texas Cowboy

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Use of reatas, chaps, branding, and raising livestock

Question 31

The Great Depression

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A time of an utter economic disaster; started in the United States in 1929.

Question 32

19th Amendment

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Gave women the right to vote

Question 33

Jim Crow Laws

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Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Question 34

Reconstruction Amendments

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13th: Free, 14th: Citizens, 15th: Vote

Question 35

Manifest Destiny

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A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

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