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1
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2 other countries concerned with Texas joining the United States

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Mexico and England

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Year Texas officialy annexed into the United States

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1845

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Main state that Texas based it’s constitution on

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Louisiana

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First governor of Texas when the annexed

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James Pinkney Henderson

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Envoy sent by Polk to negotiate the disputed territory in Texas with Mexico

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John Slidell

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The position that the federal government should not interfere with the states exercising their constitutional powers

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States Rights

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The first and only president of the Confederate states of America

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the United States in the civil war

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Abraham Lincoln

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Where the first shots of the civil war were fired

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Fort Sumter

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Texas succeed from the union

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February 23,1861

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Laws limiting the rights of African American passed by the Southern governments after the civil war

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Black codes

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Protected the rights of formally inslaved people

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14th amendment

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Abolished slavery

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13th amendment

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Date celebrated as the anniversary of emancipation day for enslaved people in Texas

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Juneteenth

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President during the reconstruction era

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Andrew Johnson

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The belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle conflicts

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Pacifism

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Kiowa chief that didn’t sign the treaty and refused to move to the reservations

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Lone wolf

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Quaker federal agent in the Indian territory for the Kiowa and Comanche people

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Lawrie Tatum

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The Comanche chief that didn’t sign the treaty and refused to move to the reservations

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Quanah Parker

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Invention that changed the meat packing industry and the cattle

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Refrigeration

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The county whose settlers brought over the first cattle to Texas

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Spain

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Founder of one of Texas’ largest ranches

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Richard King

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The eastern most route for driving cattle

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Shawnee trail

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Cattle buyer from Illinois that solved the problem of Texas fever

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Joseph McCoy

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Put charge after the agents failed the reservations
Churches and missionarys
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Texas most important crop
Cotton
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Biggest ranch in texas
XIT
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Nickname for William hooks an African American wrangler and horse trainer
Bones
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The practice of drinking little to no alcohol
Temperance
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Constitution that Texas still uses today and was created following the civil war
Constitution of 1876
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Year the Texas rangers were reorganize following the civil war
1874
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Laws discriminateing against the African Americans
Jim Crow laws
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Governor when the capital building burnt down
Lawrence Ross
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Most common to be used to build roads
Bricks
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The right to vote
Suffrage
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Main metal used for railways in the 1800s
Steel
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First telephone owner in Texas
Colonel A.H. Belo
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First cities to get a switch board on Texas
Houston and Galveston
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Drilled the first oil well in Texas
Lyme T. Barret
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Non-government currency that could only be used at company stores
Script
41
White-collar cutie known for its orchestra, museum of art,and cultural attractions
Dallas
42
The center of the oil industry
Houston
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A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop
Tenant farmer
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Drilled the first successful oil well in texas
Edwin Drake
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Invented the barbed wire fencing
Joseph Glidden
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Invented the barbed wire fencing
Joseph Glidden
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Built the first refinery west of the Mississippi in Navarro county, Texas
Cullinian
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Controlled about 90%of the oil industry in the 1890s
John D. Rockefeller
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Invented a new rotary drill that could break up rock allowing deeper drilling
Howard Hughes,Sr.
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Opened an auto assembly plant in Texas in 1914
Henry Ford
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What launched the age of oil in Texas
The discovery of oil at corsicana
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General sent by Polk to set up camp by the rio grande to keep Mexican authorities out
General Zachary Taylor
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General sent by Polk to set up camp by the rio grande to keep Mexican authorities out
General Zachary Taylor
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General sent by Polk to set up camp by the rio grande to keep Mexican authorities out
General Zachary Taylor
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Battle in the Mexican American war that general Taylor gained national recognition for winning
Battle of Buena Vista
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Mexican town where the peace treaty was sign for the Mexican American war
Guadalupe hedalgo
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Native Americans that cane to Texas form the great lakes area
Kickapoo
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Largest group of immigrants to come to texas
Germans
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Person who supports the union cause during the civil war
Unionists
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Commander of the Confederate forces in Texas
John B. Magruder
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Commander of the Confederate forces in Texas
John B. Magruder
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Commander of the Confederate forces in Texas
John B. Magruder
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2 guns boats of the Texas Confederate army
Bayou city and Neptune
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2 guns boats of the Texas Confederate army
Bayou city and Neptune
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The two guns boats of the Texas Confederate army
Bayou city and Neptune
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The capital of the Confederate states
Richmond
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The capital of the Confederate states
Richmond
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Where the Confederate toups signed the surrender to the union
Appomattox court house
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Where the Confederate toups signed the surrender to the union
Appomattox court house
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The assassin of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth

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