Age of Oil
This event in 1901 started the Texas Oil Boom.
What is Spindletop?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This environmental disaster caused major dust storms during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Texas supplied these important materials for the war effort.
What are natural resources?
This Texas president helped pass major civil rights legislation.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This invention improved drilling and made oil easier to access.
What is the rotary drill bit?
This organization fought for women’s suffrage in Texas.
What is the Texas Equal Suffrage Association?
This weather event severely damaged farms and agriculture.
What is a drought?
These facilities were built across Texas because of its land and climate.
What are military bases?
This Texan founded CORE and supported Freedom Rides.
Who is James Farmer Jr.?
This inventor created the rotary drill bit.
Who is Howard Hughes Sr.?
During World War I many of these entered the workforce.
What are women?
Many farms were lost to these during the Depression.
What are banks?
This vice president served under Franklin Roosevelt.
Who is John Nance Garner?
This organization was founded by Hector P. Garcia.
What is the American G.I. Forum?
This process caused Texas cities to grow rapidly because of oil and industry.
What is urbanization?
Texas oil helped the war by fueling these.
What are Allied vehicles?
Franklin Roosevelt’s relief programs were called this.
What is the New Deal?
Texas industries grew in these areas during WWII.
What are naval, aircraft, and ammunition industries?
This former Texan became the first African American woman from the South elected to Congress after Reconstruction.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
This economic pattern involves growth followed by decline.
What is a boom and bust cycle?
José de la Luz Sáenz helped found this civil rights organization.
What is LULAC?
New Deal projects helped Texans build these transportation routes.
What are roads and bridges?
Texas cities experienced this because of industrial growth.
What is rapid population growth?
This constitutional freedom helps citizens monitor government and stay informed.
What is freedom of the press?