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Who was a slave who tried to win his freedom in the courts against

Sandford ?

Dred Scott

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Southern troops rushed to defend what town of Virginia; the capital of

the Confederacy?

Richmond

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In 1865 the federal government established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,

Known as the?

Freedmen’s Bureau

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Grant accepted Lee’s surrender at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia

on April 9, of what year?

1865

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Granger issued the decree on June 19, 1865 African Americans in Texas

called this day what?

Juneteenth

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The Armand buffalo Hunter nearly drove the animals into what position

of life

Extinction

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Native Americans suffered through the winter of what two years?

1874 to 1875

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In 1817, the government ordered the Apaches onto a reservation in what

state

Arizona

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Many Indians died of diseases such as smallpox and_____?

Cholera

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In 1811 soldiers arrived in Texas to enforce what policy?

Reservation Policy

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By 1870 Texas hade 583 miles of what

Railroad track

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Which crops increased in production after the Civil War and during

Reconstruction?

Cotton, Corn, & Wheat

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Texas had about how many miles of railroad track by the end of the Civil

War ?

15,000 miles

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Most slaves work on plantations; where what was grown?

Cotton

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Most poor farm owners did or did not have slaves?

Did not

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Most Texans who lived on the western frontier supported what; The Confederacy or The Union?

The Union

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Why did most people Want to stretch westward

To spread slavery

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Sam Houston was a supporter of the Union and was against what?

Succession

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Texas sold its land buy using who?

Impresarios

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Most people encouraged their slaves to have children because

Children born from slaves become slaves

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A married settler could easily acquire a homestead of 160 acres if he lived

there for how long?

3 years

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$20 million in estimated damages caused in what

Fence cutting

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In the 1870’s and 1880’s the open range was doing what?

Disappearing

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In 1884, Texas passed a law making it a ___________ to cut a fence

Felony

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In what year Did Texas have only 583 miles of railroad track

1870