TEXAS GOVERNMENT
EARLY STATEHOOD - CIVIL WAR
THE CLOSING OF THE FRONTIER
TURN OF THE CENTURY AND INDUSTRY
TEXAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
100
Give and example of the WHO for the Federal Government:
What is: President, CIA, FBI, NSA,
100
Texas became the ____ (number) state in the Union.
What is the 28th.
100
Name the term that describes America's desire to move westward:
What is Manifest Destiny
100
This event started the Texas Oil Boom:
What is Spindletop
100
What Texas City is known for the Space Program and the home of NASA?
What is Houston
200
List the four levels of government from largest to smallest:
What is 1 - Federal, 2 - State, 3 - County, and 4 - City
200
Which side did Texas join during the American Civil War?
What is the Confederacy
200
What new technology made transportation easier out in the west?
What are Railroads
200
This event was a global conflict that saw massive innovations and uses in technology right after the turn of the Century:
What is World War I
200
The ____ ____ movement provided civil liberties to many groups in the US.
What is the Civil Rights
300
What part of the legislature is the LT. Governor in charge of?
What is the Senate
300
What Region were most Civil War Battles fought in Texas?
What is the Gulf Coastal Plains
300
What type of livestock were driven North to be sold in the northern railroad hubs?
What are cattle
300
This event resulted in the destruction of Galveston:
What is the Storm of 1900 / Isaac's Storm
300
What was the name of the summer in which college students rode greyhound buses into the South to register voters during the Civil Rights Movement?
What is Freedom Summer?
400
What two powers does the TX governor have in regards to prisoners?
What is stay of execution and pardon.
400
What compromise settled the dispute over the Texas Boundaries
What is The Compromise of 1850.
400
Which Indian group was driven out and killed as settlers moved west?
Who are the Plains Indians / Comanche
400
Which two events brought America into the first World War?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram & the sinking of the Lusitania.
400
Name the assassin of JFK and where the president was shot
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald and what is Dallas
500
What is the term that gives the United States government the ability to share power?
What is Federalism
500
Where did the Confederacy surrender to the Union at the end of the Civil War?
What is Appomattox Courthouse
500
Name the War in which The US. received territory that included the modern day states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California.
What is the Mexican-American War
500
The Progressive Era Amendments did many things, which two prohibited alcohol and gave women the right to vote?
What is the 18th - Prohibition & 19th - Female Suffrage
500
In what city did Martin Luther King give his famous "I have a Dream Speech"?
What is Washington DC.
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