Natural Disasters
Natural disaster that cost over $30 million in damage, killed 6,000-8,000 people, and destroyed thousands of homes?
What is the Galveston hurricane of 1900
A town near oil fields that experiences sudden growth in population and business.
What is a Boomtown
The Amendment in the US constitution that gave Women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment
To ban something, generally refers to the movement to ban the manufacture, sale, transportation and use of alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
The years that WWI was fought?
What is 1914-1918
Natural Disaster that forced farmers to move because farming became nearly impossible?
What is The Dust bowl of 1930's
!!!!!!!DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!
In 1901, the oil strike at ____________ produced a stream of oil that soared into the air as high as 100ft.
Who is the Man from Corsicana who invented a new drill bit that would dig deep into the Earth?
What is Spindletop
Who is Howard Hughes Sr.
The right to vote?
What is suffrage
Member of the "Petticoat Lobby," which worked for education, prison reform, prohibition, mother and child health, literacy, and the elimination of child labor. Was appointed as Secretary of State under Governor Dan Moody
Who is Jane McCallum
The reason for the start of WWI?
What is the Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
These systems facilitated the adaptation to the dry environment of this region.
What is Irrigation?
Social Impact:
Governor Moody wanted to __________________________ by sending Texas Rangers to Settle things down?
What is improve the standard living in Texas.
or make Texas Safe
In this Year Women gained the right to Vote?
What is 1920?
This Amendment made prohibition the law across the United States?
What is the 18th amendment
Economic Impact:
During the War, ____________ joined the workforce?
Who are Women
The City of Galveston built?
Then, they raised the ?
What is Seawall
What is Elevation
Political impact:
Governor Ross wanted to regulate the oil industry by extending the authority to the?
What is the Texas Railroad Commission
Two most important Women in Women's suffrage history?
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law?
What is bootlegging
During the war, food was being ____________?
(saved)
What is Rationed?
The City that boomed after the Galveston Hurricane?
What is Houston, Texas.
Economic Impact:
As oil fields grew in Texas, so did the _____________ in the large cities all over Texas.
What is population
The First Texas Women's organization to publicly endorse voting rights for Women?
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
These two groups were most influential in Texas prohibition?
Who are (WCTU) Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Texas Anti-Saloon League
This was the reason for Texas's involvement in WWI?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram