AGE OF OIL
The transportation and automobile industries expanded.
What is a new inexpensive fuel source discovered in Texas?
Mass production in factories churned out not only large numbers of standardized guns and bullets, but also boots, uniforms and tents. Developments in transport were also utilized, with steel becoming standard in battleships and trains starting to be used to quickly ferry large numbers of troops to war zones.
What caused manufacturing to increase and have an impact on the U.S. economy?
The Great Plains region suffered from extreme drought and heavy winds eroded and carried off the dry topsoil.
What were the physical causes of the Dust Bowl?
From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean as ordained by God.
What is Manifest Destiney?
It established schools, helped find jobs, and provided food for former slaves.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The discovery of oil in the early 20th century had a profound impact on the development of Texas.
What event led to the creation of new oil-related industries?
Discovery of the Zimmerman Telegram and sinking of the Lusitania.
What events caused the United States to enter into World War I?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created numerous government programs that created jobs to help individuals and improve the U.S. economy.
How did the United States plan to end the Great Depression called the "New Deal"?
He wrote a letter encouraging Texans to form their own government.
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
This put limits on freedmen.
What are the Black Codes?
Settlements that appeared suddenly and grew quickly, began to pop up across Texas.
What are boomtowns?
Reform movement that gave women rights.
What is Women’s suffrage?
Served in Texas House of Representatives, longest-serving U.S. Speaker of the House, hHelped create the Securities and Exchange Commission
Who was Sam Rayburn?
Established the Republic of Fredonia.
Who was Haden and Benjamin Edwards?
He gave reason why Texas should remain loyal to the United States.
Who was Sam Houston?
A period of economic growth followed by a period of economic decline
What is a boom-and-bust cycle?
Texans began rationing food and supplies.
How did some Texans help support the war effort during World War I?
The U.S. Stock Market crashed.
Why is October 29, 1929, referred to as Black Tuesday?
What is the Law of April 6, 1830?
divided the South into 5 military districts required new state constitutions to include male suffrage (voting) required states to ratify, or approve, the 14th Amendment
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
He revolutionized the oil industry with the two-cone rotary drill bit.
What is Howard Hughes, Sr.'s significance in Texas history?
New emergency alert systems were created to warn citizens about dangerous weather and a city commission was created to oversee the city's restoration.
What effects are associated with the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
What event caused the United States to get involved in World War II?
Come and Take it.
What was the Battle of Gonzales?
He was shot soon after the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?