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U4C8L1-3_Dec3-20
Unit 4, Chapter 8, Lesson 1-3 Summary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |