World War I
This type of warfare involved digging areas for the soldiers to hide in during battle.
What is trench warfare?
After the war, many people lost these and were left poor.
What are jobs?
A lack of rain.
What is a drought?
She was the first female governor of Texas.
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
This group of people were wrongfully deported in the 1930s.
Who are Mexican Americans?
This ship was sunk by German submarines and was carrying British and American passengers
What is the Lisutania?
This industry suffered and prices dropped during the great depression.
What is the oil industry?
These two things died due to the effects of the dust bowl.
What are crops and cattle?
A program created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
Mexican American women worked in these type of factories for as little as $2-$3 a week.
What are pecan factories?
A letter written to Mexico from Germany asking for an alliance.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Texas started this event to help fix the economy during the Great Depression.
What is the Texas State Fair?
A very heavy dust storm.
What is a Black Blizzard?
FDR created this program for people who were no longer able to work.
What is Social Security?
This group of people were excluded from voting in Democratic primaries.
Who are African Americans?
After the Zimmerman Note was intercepted, this country joined the war.
What is the United States?
It wasn't called the Great Depression because everyone was sad but because of...
What is the Economy?
This state was not very welcoming to people trying to escape the dust bowl.
What is California?
Texas was a one party state under this political party.
What is the Democratic party?
Used to separate groups of people by their race.
What is segregation?
He was president during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Country wide panic after the war caused this to crash.
What is the stock market?
How long the Dust Bowl lasted.
What is 10 years?
This president created the program "American jobs for real Americans"
Who is Herbert Hoover?
A group created to improve schools for Mexican American children.
What is the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)?