Age of Oil I
This happened in 1900 and killed between 6-8 thousand people.
What is the Galveston Hurricane?
Oil became the main industry in this city
What is Houston?
Suffrage meaning.
What is the right to vote?
Who are women?
The boundary between Mexico and Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
Juneteenth celebrates this.
What is the end of slavery in Texas/United States?
This was found in 1901 in Spindletop Fields
What is Oil?
This industry cause the most change in the economy of East Texas during the early 1900s.
What is oil?
The governor of Texas who made a deal with suffragettes in Texas.
Who is William P. Hobby?
The year WWI ended?
What is 1918?
The name given to African-American soldiers.
What is Buffalo Soldier?
The last Texas battle of the Civil War
What is Palmito Ranch?
Spindletop Fields was located near this city.
What is Beaumont?
Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi all have this in common.
What is their population grew because of oil?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment?
What is 1861?
The Ranch that had over 600,000 acres of land.
What is King Ranch?
The principle that says we vote and elect our representatives?
What is republicanism?
A city that experiences a big population growth (almost like overnight).
What is a boomtown?
The year oil was first found at Spindletop
What is 1901?
The major reason why the US joined World War II
What is German tried to make a deal with Mexico to get back Texas?
The death count during Black Wall street?
What is 36?
The Gulf Coastal Plains Native Americans?
Who are the Karankawa and Coahuilticans?
Where Native Americans were forced to relocate.
What are reservations?
This made all alcohol illegal in the US
What is the progressive movement?
The Allied Powers
Who are Great Britain, France and Russia?
Who is Sam Houston?
Black wall street destroyed.
What is 1921?
The highest court in the United States. People must be nominated and they serve life terms.
What is the Supreme Court?