The New Deal
The architect of the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The hero of Pearl Harbor
Who is Dorie Miller?
Women
Who went to work when the men left to fight in WWII?
Laws that created a caste system in the south
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The most iconic state in the Union
What is Texas?
Agencies created by the government to bring the country out of the Great Depression
What are alphabet agencies?
Audie Murphy
Who was the most decorated American soldier in WWII?
What did Texas contribute to the Arsenal of Democracy?
Because they fought in the war and were treated equally while they were in Europe
WWII
What ended the Great Depression?
Migrant farmers
Who were farmers who left Texas to pick crops in states like California?
A day that will live in infamy
What did Roosevelt call the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)?
Where American citizens of Japanese descent and Axis nationals living in Latin America held during WWII
What are internment camps
The movement of people away from rural areas and to large cities
What is urbanization?
Ripping out prairie grasses and over-farming
What led to the Dust Bowl?
Court packing
What was Roosevelt's plan to make sure the Supreme Court would not stop his reforms?
What Roosevelt called the role of the U.S. before December 7, 1941
What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
How the U.S. was able to transport oil without the threat of attack by German U Boats
What are Big Inch and Little Big Inch?
The word that best describes contemporary Texas
What is diversity?
The agency that regulates the oil industry in Texas
What is the Railroad Commission?
Cactus Jack
Who was Roosevelt's vice president who helped bring $300,000,000 of New Deal money to Texas?
Dwight Eisenhower
Who was the Supreme Leader of the Allied Forces
The country that practiced unrestricted warfare during WWII
What is Germany?
Lulu Belle Madison White, James Farmer, and Raymond Telles
Who were Civil Rights leaders in Texas?
The president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?