WW2
The "Good" guys and "Bad" guys of WW2.
What is "The Allies and The Axis Powers?"
Many Americans purchased these in the 1920s in hopes of getting rich quick.
What is "stocks"?
Leader of the Native American tribes, Resisted Anglo settlement, One of the most feared Indian leaders.
Who is Quanah Parker?
The Mecca of the oil industry in 1901.
What is Spindletop?
Groups formed during the early 1900s to fight for equality, education, and benefits for minority people.
What is LULAC or NAACP?
I am Hitler.
Who is the leader of the German army?
A day that Historians call "Black Tuesday" because the value of stocks dropped and banks failed.
What is "The Stock Market Crash of 1929"?
Major city located in the Mountains & Basins Region.
What is "El Paso"?
These areas grew rapidly due to oil being discovered in Texas.
What are Boomtowns?
Allowed women to vote in All elections around the US.
What is the 19th amendment?
A date which will live in infamy.
What is "The Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941."
The president during the Great Depression, who many people did not like.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This is the main crop grown in the Coastal Plains region of Texas in the late 1800s, driving Texas's economy.
What is "White Gold"?
Changed the whole economy of Texas, key proponent of growing industries, oil reserves in Texas were big in helping supply WW2.
What is the Oil Industry?
Regulated the unfair pricing of railroad usage, often resulting in farmers having to pay more than businesses.
What is the Railroad Trust?
Soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy in one of the final attacks against German forces.
What is D-Day?
People lost their homes and were forced to make shanty shacks out of whatever material they could find.
State's Rights, Unfair taxes, and slavery.
What is the Civil War?
Forced people to move to Houston, killed thousands, caused a city to be raised, and a sea wall to be built.
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
Banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
Destroyed Hiroshima & Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender to the United States.
What is "Dropping the Atomic Bomb"?
Programs that Put people back to work, He helped improve the economy, and helped lead us into WW2 after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is, "The New Deal" and President Roosevelt (FDR)?
Brought the first 300 families to Texas. Known as the Father of Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin
Had a hunch that there may be oil underground in Beaumont, struck "black gold", and started the "rush" to Texas.
Who is Patillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas?
Fought for farmers and rural citizens, fought against the railroad companies, and later became a Governor of Texas.
Who is James Hogg?