Past is Past
Cause and Effect
Spindle It
Progress Made
The Great War
100
The shipwrecked, stranded, and starving conquistador Cabeza de Vaca did not let disaster stop him from being the first to --
A. write stories about the land that became Texas
B. colonize the land that became Texas.
C. create maps of the land that became Texas.
D. find gold in the land that became Texas.
What is A.
100
Spindletop caused the start of this industry
A. Cotton Industry
b. Real Estate Industry
C. Temperance Industry
D. Petroleum Industry
What is D petroleum industry?
100
When did an economic boom result from the FIRST discovery of oil in Texas
a. Middle 1800s
b. Early 1800s
c. Middle 1900s
d. Early 1900s
What is D 1901?
100
The substance being emptied from the barrel in the prohibition era is...
a. oil
b. water
c. alcohol
d. soap
What is banning alcohol in the prohibition era?
100
Which invention did NOT appear during World War
a. airplanes
b. internet
c. tanks
d. poison gas
What is b internet?
200
Puebloan Indian Tribes and Southeastern Indian tribes were similar in that they were both -
a. sedentary
b. nomadic
c. farmers
d. fisherman 
What is sedentary?
200
The Germans asked Mexico to invade Texas through the Zimmerman telegram, this was what Germany promising in return if Mexico did start a war with USA?
a. Northwestern part of the United States
b. Southwestern part of the United States
c. Central part of the United States
d. Northcentral part of the United States
What is B Southwestern?
200
Also called Lucas field, this is where more than 3x the amount of oil was discovered in the entire world
a. Temperance
c. Hines
c. Spindletop
d. Progressive
What is C Spindletop?
200
This person said,
"We were told . . . to go to work and raise a big crop, that was all we needed. We went to work and plowed and planted; the rains fell, the sun shone, nature smiled, and we raised the big crop that they told us to; and what came of it? Eight cent corn, ten cent oats, two cent beef and no price at all for butter and eggs—that’s what came of it. Then the politicians said that we suffered from over-production."
—Anonymous farmer,
a. Progressive from the Populist Party
b. Progressive from the Woman Suffrage Movement
c. Progressive from the Temperance Movement Movement
d. Progressive from the Child Labor Reform
What is A Populist Party?
200
Fill in the blanks:
USA tried to remain ____________ but ended up joining the side of the ____________________.
a. Neutral; Central Powers
b. Neutral; Allied Powers
c. Central Powers; Allied Powers
d. Allied Powers; Neutral
What is B Neutral; Allied Powers?
300
Describe what William B Travis' Victory or Death letter was asking for
What is help, reinforcements, aid?
300
Describe one way Galveston made modifications after the Hurricane of 1900
What is a seawall and raised the height of the city?
300
Describe the Boom and Bust cycle
A period of great profits followed by a downward trend in an industry
300
Name one labor reform (changes within the workplace) and one thing suffragettes want
What is increase of employee rights, child labor laws, safer work environment; increase political power to ALL genders including women such as voting and holding political office.
300
Describe how Texas women contributed to WWI
What is entering the workforce as nurses, telegraph assistants, drivers, factory workers?
400
Describe Anglo, Mexican, and Spanish settlement/colonization in Texas
What is Anglo (farms, ranches, cheap land), Mexican (empresario system), Spanish (missions and presidios)
400
Houston, Beaumont and Midland are all common because the discovery of oil caused a growth in...
What is population, boomtowns?
400
Fill in the blank:
Almost sounds like urbanization, the discovery of oil led to rapid _______________________.
What is industrialization?
400
Name the Texan was elected governor with the support of groups like the Texas Farmer's Union, Farmer's Alliance, and the Grange to fight against railroad monopolies
Who is James Hogg?
400
Texas contributed economically $$ and militarily to WWI by...
What is buying war bonds, rationing food, and military training camps, drilling for more oil?
500
Name a reason besides Lincoln becoming president of why Texas joined the Confederacy. ***Think why they did not like Lincoln
What are they wanted to protect slavery and state rights
500
Describe the difference between agrarian and urban Texas and use one example job of each
What is farm (agrarian) and city (urban). Examples include tenant farmer, rancher, sharecropper for agrarian and factory worker, refinery worker and streetcar driver for urban.
500
Howard Hughes Senior invented this...
What is the drill bit?
500
Name what the 18th, 19th, and 21st Amendment was
What is 18th- banning alcohol, 19th- Woman suffrage, 21st- repealed 18th?
500
Name the 2 reasons why USA entered the war
What is the sinking of Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?