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An economic pattern characterized by periods of economic growth and periods of economic decline.
What is boom and bust cycle?
A thick, oily substance found deep in the Earth, used as a fuel.
What is petroleum?
Believed that efficient government and strong public education would create an environment in which the industrial and agricultural economic sectors would both thrive.
What is progressivism?
These industries boomed during World War I due to demand.
What are oil and cotton?
This turn of the century nationwide movement of rural citizens who had not benefited from the modern lifestyle made by the growth in industry called for more government intervention in the economy to support farmers and common workers.
What is populism?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
Even though the 1920ś saw the oil industry continue to grow, the Texas economy remained largely dominated by __________________ production.
What is agricultural?
Intertwined with the progressives movement, women in Texas petitioned the constitutional convention in these years to grant woman the right to vote but were unsuccessful in both attempts
When was 1868 and 1875?
The approximate number of Texans that fought during World War I.
What is 200,000?
This alliance formed the People´s Party in 1892.
What is the Farmer´s Alliance?
To ban something, generally refers to the movement to ban the manufacture, sale, transportation and use of alcoholic beverages.
What is prohibition?
The first commercial oil well was established in Corsicana in this year.
When was 1894?
In 1918, women were given the right to vote in these kind of elections.
What is a primary election?
What is food?
Progressives in Texas were successful in a movement that limited work hours for railroad trainmen, increased safety standards for railroad workers, and regulated child labor known as this.
What is labor reform?
The economic development of manufacturing products from natural resources.
What is industrialization?
The discovery of oil located here in 1901 confirmed for potential investors that Texas may have large oil deposits.
What is Spindletop, Texas?
in 1893 the Texas Equal Rights Association was formed and a late split led to the formation of this association in 1903.
What is the Texas Women´s Suffrage Assoiation?
Approximately 500 women served as these in World War I.
What are nurses?
The rise of use of credit in the 1920´s led to this.
What is the Great Depression?
Those who advocate social reforms and legislative programs to improve society.
Who are progressives?
The oil industry in Texas benefited from increased demand during this confrontation.
What is World War I?
This amendment gave women the right to vote on August 18,1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The _________________ was characterized by the development of the oil industry in Texas at the beginning of the 20th century, the development of reform movements in the early 20th century, and the involvement of Texans in the First World War.
What is the Age of Oil?
Oil and gas industry jobs increased because of increased use of these.
What are automobiles?