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Challenges and Progress
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Challenges
& Progress
New Beginning and Concerns
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- 1876: Texas declared itself as a "free and independent state" under the U.S. Constitution
- Jim Crow Laws: laws discriminating against African Americans
- These laws segregated, separated, whites from black in schools, stores, and hotels
- Prevented blacks from voting using fear and intimidation
LESSON PROFILE
State Government at Work
- 1870s: Violence and lawlessness broke out in Texas
- Communities had vigilantly groups take the law in their own hands
- 1874: Texas Rangers are reorganized to stop crime
- The Salt War
- When: 1877-1878
- Where: San Elizario/ El Paso County
- Who: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, a white lawyer
- What: The white lawyer filed claim on the salt, enraging the Mexican faction. When he arrested two men who threatened to get salt, rioting broke out, resulting in Howard being held prisoner for 3 days. Texas Rangers were sent but surrendered to the Mexican crowd
Starting Over
Fighting for Equality
Women in Texas After Reconstruction
- Under the new Constitution, women did not have very many rights
- White women worked to gain the right to vote
- Hope to fix social problems
- Many white women joined organizations to work on social problems, women's issues, and women's rights
- Some worked in the temperance movement to end or reduce drinking alcoholic beverages
- The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) worked to keep kids from jail and in school
- WCTU also worked in the women's suffrage movement
Standards
Standards
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Changes in Transportation and Communication
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- 1870s: State government provided land grants to railroad builders
- By 1875, 1,650 miles of track had been constructed, including a transcontinental line
OBJECTIVES
Essential understandings
Texas Industry develops
Farmers Face Problems
A New Way of Talking
Texas Industry
- With the onset of refrigerated rail cars, industry grew in Texas
- Mining and lumbering were needed jobs for the railroad industry
- Farmers used the railroad to ship goods, but cost was high and farmers lost profits
- Rail companies could charge whatever they wanted
- Governor James Hogg passed a law to regulate the price of railroad travel
- 1878: Colonel A.H. Belo became the first owner of the telephone in Texas
- Telephone lines were connected transferred at a central switchboard
MATERIALS
EQUIPMENT
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MATERIALS,
EQUIPMENT
References
References
PROCEDURE
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PROCEDURE
Warm-up
activity
Warm-up activity
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Step 2
ASSESSMENT
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ASSESSMENT
Assessment activity 1
Assessment activity 1
Assessment activity 2
Assessment activity 2
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