Galveston Hurricane
What category was the hurricane that hit the city?
4
This was the time that the American Stock Market came to a stop and millions of Americans became unemployed and lost everything that they owned.
The Great Depression
This was started because of the tensions in Europe. However, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I
This is a term used to describe the movements that were during this time to reform the policies that were happening.
Reformation movements or Progressive movements
This is a cycle that is known as when there is something there, it rises, but then there is a shortage.
Boom-bust-cycle
This resource was extremely difficult to find after the hurricane hit.
Clean water
This practice (of using loans to buy stocks in order to make a profit) is known as
Speculation
2 major events pushed the US into joining:
The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmermann Telegram.
Women fought for the right to vote, finally achieving it with the 19th Amendment (1920).
Women's Suffrage
The town that had a population of just 9,000 and went to 50,000 in just 2 years.
Beaumont
How many on the entire island died?
12,000
What was the day that the Stock Market officially cashed?
October 29, 1929. "Black Tuesday".
Women volunteered as-
Nurses
What was the meaning behind the labor reform union?
To have better wages, shorter working hours, and safer working conditions.
Petroleum – more commonly referred to as oil– is a
Fossil Fuel
There were too many dead bodies to bury in the island. As a result, they had to-
Ship the bodies out to the Gulf of Mexico.
What was a Hooverville?
These were shantytowns that were characterized by poorly constructed shacks in which Americans who’d lost their homes lived in. Named after Hoover as a mockery to him not doing anything to help the American people.
Limited the amount of goods they purchased so more could be sent overseas to the soldiers.
Rationing
a movement which encouraged Americans to refrain from drinking alcohol, and supported legislation severely regulating / limiting / and even banning its sale and consumption
Temperance Movement
a large, oil and gas-producing region in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico
Permian Basin
What was the largest city in Texas before the hurricane?
Galveston
What was the federal program that F.D.R. wanted and got to implement to help the American people?
The New Deal
Texas farmers produced record amounts of
Cotton, wheat, and livestock to support both the troops abroad and the growing domestic demand
Why were the Texas reformations so important to history?
Because without the reformation movements, we would not have the society that we have today. Working the maximum hours, or minimum hours, health care, etc.
What is the Permanent University Fund?
Fund education in Texas– including both K-12 education as well as institutions of higher education