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CBA #3 Review
Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a slave? | Someone who is owned by another person and forced to obey them. They work very hard for no pay. |
| What is a sharecropper? | A farmer who gives part of what they harvest to pay rent for the land they live on. |
| Who was President of the United States during the period of slavery? | President Lincoln |
| How did President Lincoln feel about slavery? | He hated the fact that African Americans were treated so horribly. |
| Name a document that freed the all slaves. | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| A "cattle queen" from Texas who worked as a book keeper for cowboys on trail drives. She was the first person to drive a herd of cattle along the Chisholm Trail. | Lizzie Johnson |
| Inventor of barbed wire fencing | Joseph Glidden |
| Oil was first found in this Texas town. | Beaumont, Texas at Spindletop |
| What caused Texas to become a Confederate state during the Civil War? | The new US President wanted to abolish slavery. Texas still wished to own slaves. |
| During the Civil War the Northern states were called? | The Union. They did not believe in slavery. They like to follow the rules of the US. |
| The states that went against the Union in the Civil War were called? | The Confederacy. They liked slavery. They wanted to nullify rules they didn't want to follow. |
| At the end of the cattle drive business, how were goods transported from place to place? | Railroads that ran on steam. |
| Oil, Cattle, Space, Technology, and Railroads are all examples of what? | Industries |
| Who is Raul Gonzalez? | The first elected or appointed Hispanic to hold an office in Texas. |
| What is the Great Depression? | 1929-1939 when many industries and the stock market began to crash. Many economic problems during this time. |
| What is the Dust Bowl? | Deadly wind erosion caused by a drought that damaged many prairies in America. |