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What is a slave?   Someone who is owned by another person and forced to obey them. They work very hard for no pay.  
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What is a sharecropper?   A farmer who gives part of what they harvest to pay rent for the land they live on.  
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Who was President of the United States during the period of slavery?   President Lincoln  
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How did President Lincoln feel about slavery?   He hated the fact that African Americans were treated so horribly.  
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Name a document that freed the all slaves.   The Emancipation Proclamation  
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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  
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Inventor of barbed wire fencing   Joseph Glidden  
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Oil was first found in this Texas town.   Beaumont, Texas at Spindletop  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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At the end of the cattle drive business, how were goods transported from place to place?   Railroads that ran on steam.  
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Oil, Cattle, Space, Technology, and Railroads are all examples of what?   Industries  
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Who is Raul Gonzalez?   The first elected or appointed Hispanic to hold an office in Texas.  
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What is the Great Depression?   1929-1939 when many industries and the stock market began to crash. Many economic problems during this time.  
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What is the Dust Bowl?   Deadly wind erosion caused by a drought that damaged many prairies in America.  
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