Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
When prices dropped, causing businesses to close and jobs to be lost, this economic cycle occurred in Texas industries.
What is a bust?
This city was ravaged by a hurricane and had to reform its city government to a new commission plan.
What is Galveston?
This was the main reason Texas joined the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This word means 'change for the better.'
What is reform?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This industry boomed after the Civil War due to high demand in the North and refrigerated railroads?
What is the cattle industry?
This movement worked to reform government and make it better for workers.
What is the Progressive movement?
After the war ended, Texas entered a period of rebuilding after the civil war.
What is Reconstruction?
This word means rapid growth.
What is 'boom'?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This form of transportation expanded in Texas, helping move cattle, cotton, and other goods more efficiently across the state.
What are railroads?
The Progressive party focused on making workers' lives better and they reformed the workplace by...
What is (higher wages, shorter work weeks, or better conditions)?
This battle occurred AFTER the Civil War had ended.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
This word means 'decline of industry.'
What is 'bust'?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection to African-Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This technology helped lead to a boom in the farming of cotton.
What are (threshers, windmills, plows, or tractors)?
This Texas governor fought for progressive reform and railroad regulation.
Who is James Hogg?
This battle was fought at sea and helped regain control of a key port city to the Confederates.
What is the Battle of Galveston?
This word means 'a region that is the farthest edge of settlement.'
What is 'frontier?'
This amendment made the sale and production of alcohol illegal in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This Texas city became a major oil center after the Spindletop discovery in 1901, marking the start of the oil boom.
What is Beaumont?
This party focused more on farmers than on workers.
What is the Populist party?
Texas did not have many battles happen in it. Instead, its role was to provide these two resources.
What are cotton and cattle?
These laws mean 'segregation' or 'separation.'
What are Jim Crow Laws?