Vocabulary
The right to vote.
Suffrage
To make changes in something in order to improve it.
Reform
True or False: President Woodrow Wilson needed Congress to declare war on Germany.
True
City which was devastated by a hurricane in 1900.
Galveston.
A thick, oily substance found deep in the Earth that is used as a fuel.
Petroleum
The oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization that is focused on advancing the economic, educational, political, and civil rights of Hispanic Americans.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
A man discovers oil on his land. Knowing there is a local shortage of oil, he contacts several oil companies who are all interested in buying it from him. Will this lead to a boom or a bust?
Boom
How many people are estimated to have died in the Galveston Hurricane?
8,000
To ban something, generally refers to the movement to ban the manufacture, sale, transportation and use of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition
An organization founded in 1903 to support white women's suffrage in Texas.
Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA)
Information which is especially of a biased or misleading nature and is used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.
Propoganda
A major oil gusher was struck here in 1901.
Spindletop
An economic pattern characterized by periods of economic growth and periods of economic decline.
Boom and Bust Cycle
True or false: The Reform Movement was one singular movement.
False
True or False: prior to the discovery of Spindletop, oil was not used in Texas.
False
True or false: the United States joined World War I three years after it began.
True
The economic development of manufacturing products from natural resources.
Industrialization
What were some reforms that Galveston made after the hurricane?
-New government system
-Built seawall
-Elevated city
-Established Central Relief Committee
-Called in the Red Cross
Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages between 1920-1933.
18th Amendment
What year did the United States join World War I?
1917