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31 Cards in this Set
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Lincoln's 10% plan |
a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters pledged allegiance to the Union
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Freedman's Bureau |
help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War
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Texas Constitution of 1876 |
Current constitution |
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Texxas gubernational Election of 1860 |
Houston wins |
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Development of Railroads |
was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution |
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Red river wars |
military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Native American tribes from the Southern Plains and forcibly relocate them to reservations in Indian Territory |
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Demise of Bison |
Due to overhunting by Texans |
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Cattle Drives |
Moving cattle from one place to another |
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Sharecropping |
system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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Lumber Industry |
Produced big number and it's bonanza period was taking place |
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Cotton Culture |
Slave labor replaced by tenant farming andsharecropping
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Disenfranchisement of Blacks |
Series of laws, new constitutions and practices aimed deliberately at blacks rights |
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Populist Party |
Pushed for graduated income tax, better working conditions and pay (as well as free coining of silver)... Did not accomplish anything |
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James Stephen Hogg reforms |
Anti Trust legislation, anti lynching, Texas railroad commission, bring blacks into Texas democratic party |
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Galveston Storm of 1900 |
Largest hurricane disaster in history; impetus for city commission form of government |
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Life at the turn of the century |
Few steam tractors and mechanized farms, gas and electricity available in large communities, few automobiles, no paved roads outside of cities |
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Leisure Activities |
Divided between race, horse racing |
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Education |
1883: State real estate/property tax to support school, 1884: school districts under supervision of county judges, minorities are separate but not equal |
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Literature and Music |
H.A. McArdle- painter, Elisabeth Ney- sculptor, Scott Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Huddy "leadbelly" Ledbetter |
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Spindletop |
salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas |
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Beamount Texas (before/after) |
Before: Small farming community and Mill town, in 1901: the boom town |
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Pattillo Higgins |
Founder of oil at spindletop |
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Columbus "Dad" Joiner |
Schemer,raised funds to drill in east texas through fragility of elderly women ¾)ZV^j |
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H.L. Hunt |
Wins oilfield over poker, wells produce 500,000 barrels/year with no sign of yielding |
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Progressive movement |
is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America
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National Progressive Reforms |
16-19th Amendment, Pure food and drug act,Meat inspection act, child labor laws |
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Four factors leading to progressivism in Texas |
Texas Economy, Political and Cultural climate, Reforms themselves, Federal Government |
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White primaries |
elections in the south that only allowed whites to vote |
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Texas reforms: |
Tax insurance, protection of funds, municipal government, labor laws, prison reform, prohibition and womens suffrage |
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Texas women at the turn of the century |
No right to vote, right to sue and make contracts, could own property with restrictions, single women had more legal rights |
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Employment of women |
only 8% employed outside of the home |
