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U4C8L1-3_Dec3-20
Unit 4, Chapter 8, Lesson 1-3 Summary
Question | Answer |
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frontier | the farthest part of a settled country |
profit | the money that a person or business has left over after all the costs are paid |
free enterprise | an economic system that lets people decide what to make, sell, and buy |
cavalry | soldiers who fight battles while riding on horses |
blockade | to block |
plantation | a large farm that grew crops to sell |
nullify | to refuse |
sharecropper | a farmer who pays part of the crops he or she grows to a landowner |
secede | to break away from |
In the year _______, the U.S. paid Texas $10 million to give up parts of present-day New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Kansas. | 1850 |
1. The first Texas _____ was held in the city of Dallas in 1886. | Fair |
A writer named _____ wrote about Texas in 1855. | Frederick Law Olmsted |
The parts of a country closest to lands that have not been settled yet are called _______. | Frontier |
In a free enterprise system, the consumers are the people or businesses who buy the goods that are made and sold by the _____. | producers |
6. Conflicts arose between new settlers and ________ when new settlers drove off or killed buffalo and other animals. | Native Americans |
The people who buy are called the ____ | consumers |
The people that sell are called the ___ | Producers |
Producers are people that ____ | sell goods they make |
The consumers are the people that ____ | buy the goods or stuff |
1. The Civil War ended when ______ surrendered to Ulysses S. | Robert E. Lee |
On June 19, 1865, Union general _______announced that all enslaved Texans were free. | Gordon Granger |
On the nineteenth of June, many African American families celebrate a holiday that many call . | JUNETEENTH |
An African American leader who was elected to the Texas Senate in 1869 was named ________. | Matthew Gaines |
In 1870, the United States flag once again flew over the capitol building in ______ | Austin, the Capital of Texas. |
Many Anglo Americans felt that Governor _____ spent too much state money and was too eager to help African Americans. | Edmund Davis |
________ was a period of rebuilding that lasted more than ten years. | Recosntruction |
The first state to _____ or break away, from the nation was South Carolina. | secede |
Most Southerners believed states should have the power to _____, or cancel, national laws they did not like. | nullify |
Ships carrying goods that people needed could not get through the Union _______. | blockade |
A _____ paid part of the crops he or she grew to the landowner. | Sharecropper |
Some Texans loved to ride horses, so they joined ______ units. | Cavalry |
There was a great demand for cotton, and ______ owners grew rich. | plantation |
Business in Texas enjoys a ______ system, where producers and consumers have the right to make choices. | free enterprise |
Once the cost of making and selling a product are paid, a producer hopes to make a ______ . | profit |
Many enslaved African Americans worked in the fields on a ____________. | Plantation |
The region was not completely settled, so some Anglo Americans still saw Texas as the ________. | frontier |