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