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- The depression was far worse in Texas than in most other states. (True or False)
- American Indians were usually eager to move onto reservations
- In the United States, the fight over Texas annexation hinged on the issue of slavery.
- African Americans were effectively barred from voting in Texas during most of the early 1900s. (True or False)
- Jazz was created by white musicians, but quickly taken up by African Americans. (True or False)
- Texas was eager to have the Republic recognized by other nations
- Prior to the Mexican-American war, Mexico thought that the Rio Grande separated Texas and Mexico
- In the United States, neither northerners nor southerners were eager to annex Texas
- Sam Houston was the first governor of the state of Texas
- The Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market. (True or False)
- The Ku Klux Klan was politically powerful in the early 1920s. (True or False)
- During the Texas Revolution, many Texans' homes and communities were destroyed
- President Roosevelt proposed a program called the New Deal to help Americans hurt by the depression. (True or False)
- What was John C. Calhoun's position when he began the Nullification movement?
- Presidents from which state dominated the early presidency?
- After the Revolutionary War, the orphaned Andrew Jackson moved to ________ to make his fortune?
- Why did many white people call the Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole groups the "Five Civilized Tribes"?
- What event motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton to become active in the women's rights movement?
- What motivated William Loyd Garrison to join the anti-slavery movement?
- Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?