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- After Santa Anna demanded that the Texans surrender, Travis and his men refused and continued to ______________.
- The main idea of the famous William Travis letter is that the Texans needed _____________ and were willing to ______ to defend the _______________
- who Received a land grant from the Spanish government
- The American and Texas Revolutions are similar because they both resisted attempts of a far off government that tried to impose greater ____________
- After the death of Moses Austin _________________________ acted as Empresario and brought the first _____________ to Texas
- Under the Constitution of 1824 the __________ was shared between the __ _____ and __________ governments
- The separation or isolation of race, class, or group is called ____________________.
- The Native American soldiers that fought in the west were called ____________ by the Apache and Cheyenne.
- A crisis arose when a powerful banking firm declared bankruptcy, this triggered a wave of fear known as __________________.
- In 1896 the Supreme Court upheld segregation laws im _____________. The case involved a Louisiana law that required separate sections on trains for African Americans and whites.
- A more serious danger to freed people in the South were secret societies such as the ___________, these groups used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women.
- To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office ______________.
- _______________ was a name given by former confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the south.
- _____________ is a device that allows persons to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began.
- African American writer and Civil Rights leader _________________ was slave who was let free abd then later on moved back again towards slavery.
- A tax a person must pay in order to vote ______________.
- A _____________ is a system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.
- Republicans attempted to keep control of the White House by choosing Ohio Governor ________________ as their candidate for president in 1876.
- A _______________ was a method used to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring prospective voters to read and write at a specified level.
- _________ is putting something to death by the illegal action of a mob.