Vocabulary
These former slaves protected Anglos from Native Americans on the frontier.
Who are Buffalo Soldiers?
This invention made trains a new powerful transportation option that helped businesses grow.
What is the steam engine?
This was the war that the United States entered in 1917 that helped fuel the Great Migration.
What is World War I?
What is the name of the law that ended segregation in public places?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Bonus: Who signed this law?
This event was the movement of African Americans from the South to the North to work in factories.
What is the Great Migration?
This Comanche chief led his people against the Anglos and resisted forced removal to reservations.
Who is Quanah Parker?
These began after the Civil War, when the cattle industry took off, to get cattle to railroad stations to be shipped away.
What are cattle drives?
Drought, over-farming, overgrazing, and strong winds caused this devastating event.
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is the name of the law that ended voting discrimination, like poll taxes and literacy tests?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Bonus: Who signed this law?
This is the name of the era after World War I where everyone was happy and spending a lot of money.
What is the Roaring 20s?
These pieces of land were set aside for Native Americans to live on after they were forced out of the Texas frontier.
What are reservations?
This invention ended the era of the cattle drives and closed the frontier.
What is barbed wire?
This event pulled America out of the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
Who are Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks and MLK?
America joined World War II because of what event?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
This is the name of the wild and unsettled edge of land beyond the civilized parts of Texas.
What is the frontier?
This were created after the discovery of oil in Texas.
The stock market crash of October 1929 sent America into this era.
What is the Great Depression?
This man was the president of the United States during the Civil Rights Movement and passed 2 historic Civil Rights laws.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This group of people lost their culture and were forced to move to reservations.
Who are the Native Americans?
These are what ranchers used to take their cattle from Texas to the railroad stations in Kansas.
What are cattle trails?
This advancement to trains helped boost the cattle and food industry in Texas and the nation.
What is the Refrigerated Car?
This group of people did not benefit from the Roaring 20's.
What were minorities?
This was the name of the laws passed in the South to segregate African Americans from whites.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Name the three strikes against Germany that pulled the USA into World War I.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, and submarine warfare?