Reforms
Ranching
Farming
Industry
Other
100
The state institution that regulated railroads in the state.
What is the Texas Railroad Commission?
100
Spain
What is the first country that brought cattle to Texas?
100
A device that pumped water from below the ground.
What is a windmill?
100
January 10, 1901 Spindletop.
What is the beginning of the oil industry?
100
Resulted in a new city government (a five man committee).
What is the Galveston Hurricane?
200
A cooperative between farmers that sold goods at lower prices.
What is the Grange?
200
A move of large cattle herds to market.
What is a drive?
200
A form of plowing that left a layer of topsoil, often used in West Texas.
What is dry farming?
200
This industry boomed due to demand from oil companies.
What is the lumber industry?
200
Tied the state together, increased communication, and made it easier to move people and goods.
What is the coming of the railroads?
300
An organization that went around the middlemen and dealt directly with the mills.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
300
The first cattle trail that went to Sedalia, Missouri.
What is the Sedalia/Shawnee Trail?
300
A type of farming in which the landowner provided only the land.
What is tenant farming?
300
Oil (also known as)
What is Texas Gold?
300
The governor who gave Texas women suffrage.
Who is William P. Hobby?
400
A business that has total control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
400
The King Ranch, XIT Ranch, Waggoner Ranch.
What are some famous Texas ranches?
400
The type of farming in which the laborer got 1/2 of the money from the crops.
What is sharecropping?
400
The Galveston Hurricane.
What is worst natural disaster in U.S. history?
500
A popular governor who supported ordinary people over big businesses.
Who is James Hogg?
500
The railroads reached Texas.
What is the reason the cattle drives ended?
500
The major change that required new types of farming after the Civil War.
What is the end of slavery?
500
A state agency that regulated rails inside the state.
What is Texas Railroad Commission?
500
Women, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans.
What are three groups that faced discrimination?
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