Government
Important People
History
Civic Rights & Responsibilities
Economy
100
State Law (choose one= Baytown, Texas, United States)
Texas
100
First man to use an artificial heart.
Denton Cooley
100
President who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963
John F. Kennedy
100
Serving on a Jury (Right or Responsibility)
Responsibility
100
A decrease in coal prices would affect a large number of people in what region?
Coastal Plains
200
Municipality Law (chose one - Baytown, Texas, United States)
Baytown
200
Texan who was Vice President under John F. Kennedy and then became President. He was President during the Vietnam War.
Lyndon B. Johnson
200
Immigration from what region greatly increased between 1970 and 2000?
Latin America
200
Voting (Right or Responsibility)
Responsibility
200
Two products that Texas' economy was based on before industrialization.
Cotton and Oil
300
Which Principle of Government is shown in the Chart?
Separation of Powers
300
First woman to become a pediatric surgeon in Texas.
Benjy Brooks
300
What agency based in Houston was the "headquarters" of the Space Race?
NASA
300
Freedoms of Speech and Religion are protected by what?
Bill of Rights
300
The Houston Ship Channel was built after what event that destroyed Galveston?
Hurricane of 1900
400
What controversy about land titles to lands beneath navigable waters occurred during Eisenhower's presidency?
Tideland Controversy
400
Texan who was a General in WWII and ended the Korean War as President.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
400
What was built as a result of the Hurricane of 1900?
Seawall
400
The act of Burning an American Flag was protected by what freedom in the Bill of Rights?
Freedom of Speech
400
School districts in Texas gets most of its funding from what?
Property taxes
500
The first African-American Woman from the South (Texas) to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. She fought for protections of minorities including Latinos.
Barbara Jordan
500
Texan who was Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt
John "Cactus Jack" Nance Garner
500
Houston Ship Channel Opens, Oil found at Spindletop, Galveston Seawall built, and Howard Hughes develops the drill bit are all events that happened in what Era in Texas History?
Age of Oil
500
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
Bill of Rights
500
Refineries, cars and roads, taller building, railroad hubs all led to people moving to cities for work. What was this called?
Urbanization