Ch 19 Texas History
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| suffrage | the right for women to vote
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| The= late 1800s in Texas was a time of | growth and expansion.
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| The most important job for women in the late 1800s was | teaching.
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| The most popular political party in Texas in the late 1800s was the | democrats.
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| Governor Roberts balanced the budget by | reducing the education fund and veterans pensions.
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| Some streets were paved with brick or wood but most were | dirt roads.
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| To have total control over a market or industry | monopoly
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| Money paid after a person retires | pension
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| A market that operates without the government regulating it is called | free interprise market.
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| A committee formed to | punish criminals harshly and with out the laws of the local sheriff's office.
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| An arrangement between companies selling the same products that sometimes eliminated the | competition.
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| When there is not competition in a market, prices go | up.
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| When there is competition in a market, prices go | down.
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| The Texas constitution has been ammended | 400 times.
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| Laws written to keep monopolies from forming or industries from fixing prices in a market were called | antitrust laws.
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| Who wrote the Constitution of 1869? | Radical Republicans
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| Many Democrats thought the Constitution of 1869 gave | to much power to the the government.
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| The Constitution of 1876 gave the government | limited powers.
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| The 15th Ammendment guaranteed the right to vote to who? | men
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| The Constitution of 1876 only allowed the legislature to meet | once every two years.
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| Legislatures of the new constitution could only be in office for | a set number of years. In otherwords, it could not be for how ever long they wanted to be in office.
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| The constitution of 1876 lowered | taxes, salaries of state employees, and the education budget.
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| The Constitution of 1876 was written in | Austin.
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| Most democrats of this time were | cautious and conservative.
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| At the end of Reconstruction public debt was | rising.
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| Farmers and merchants wanted railroads built to | move goods and people quickly and cheaply.
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| Meat packing began in | Victoria, Texas.
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| Timber was the most important | indusrty in 1900.
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| The People's Party (or the Populist Party) | was mostly struggling farmers wanting fair laws.
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| The Grange was a | social group that called for economic changes.
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| A trust was usually powerful enough to keep | other companies from selling the same goods or service and having free trade.
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| The Texas Railroad Commission | regulated the Texas railroaad system and is still in operation today.
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| The Texas Railroad Commission also regulates the | oil industry today.
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| From 1875 to 1900 farmer's profits went | down for the most part.
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| Women were allowed to vote in 1918 in the | primary elections.
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| Women were allowed to vote in 1920 in the | general elections.
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| The Equal Rights Association was founded in | Dallas, Texas in 1893.
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| Ft. Worth developed because of | railroads.
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| Laredo was a city | represented by Mexican American Santos Benavides in the late 1800 legislature.
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| Estacado was a town that | had no railroads so it became a ghost town.
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| Norris Wright Cuney was an influential African American that | served as a Republican committeeman and collector of customs for the port of Galveston.
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