Hurricanes & Galveston
Oil & Spindletop
Progressive Era
Voting & Amendments
WW1 & Texas Homefront
100
  • Clue: This city was struck by a massive hurricane on September 8, 1900.

What is Galveston?

100

 The word for the oily liquid found under the ground that fueled early Texas industry.

What is petroleum?

100
  • Clue: Term for jobs that don’t require heavy physical labor; often contrasted with blue‑collar.
  • What is white‑collar?


100
  • Clue: The constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote (number).

What is the 19th Amendment?

100
  • Clue: Year World War I began (from the quiz choices).

What is 1914?

200
  • Clue: The 1900 Galveston storm is especially devastating because the citizens lacked this.

What is lack of advance warning?

200
  • Clue: The word for the oily liquid found under the ground that fueled early Texas industry.

What is Spindletop Field?

200
  • Clue: Name given to societal efforts to improve problems like corruption, safety, and welfare.

 What is the Progressive Movement?

200

The amendment that banned alcohol (number) — referenced in the quizzes as Prohibition's amendment.

What is the 18th Amendment?

200
  • Clue: Year World War I ended (from the quiz choices).

What is 1918?

300
  • Clue: After the 1900 hurricane, this Texas city became the most important port.

What is Houston?

300
  • Clue: A dramatic short-term flow of oil from a well is called this.


  • What is a gusher?
300

 The movement that sought to end the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

What is Prohibition?

300
  • Clue: Year the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) was ratified — answer as year.

What is 1920?

300
  • Clue: The intercepted diplomatic message that helped push the U.S. toward war (name).

What is the Zimmerman Note?

400

To protect the city after the hurricane, Galveston built this structure to stop rising floodwaters.

What is a seawall?

400

This Texas city served as the center of the oil industry (from the quiz choices).

What is Houston?

400

 A written plan that outlines a government — used in state and national governance.

 What is a constitution?

400
  • Clue: Short answer: the term for the right to vote.

What is suffrage?

400
  • Clue: During WWI many Texas women filled these roles making needed supplies.

What are factory workers (making war supplies)?

500

This barrier island (listed on one quiz options) lies off the Texas coast and is near Galveston area geography.

What is Padre Island?

500
  • Clue: A town that rapidly grows because of an oil discovery is often called this.

What is a boomtown?

500
  • Clue: What Texans and Americans enacted in the early 20th century to expand reforms and regulation (phrase).

What is Progressive reforms / the Progressive Movemen

500

Which amendment later repealed Prohibition (number)?

What is the 21st Amendment?

500
  • Clue: The U.S. involvement in WWI was sparked partly by attacks from these naval vessels on shipping.

 What are German U‑boats?

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