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Oil, Rubber, & Agriculture
Fight for Your Right
Politics Shmolitics
New Deal-ee-o
Now I'm Depressed
100
State and federal laws passed in 1935 controlled overproduction of this.
What is oil?
100
She was the leader of the Pecan Sheller's Strike
Who is Emma Tenayuca Brooks?
100
This means to be excused from punishment.
What is pardoned?
100
He was the head of the National Youth Administration (NYA).
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
100
During the 1920s and 30s, cotton prices were driven down by this.
What is overproduction?
200
This is a person who drills in territory not known to contain oil.
What is a wildcatter?
200
He tried to vote in the Democratic primary.
Who is Lawrence Nixon?
200
He was the U.S. President in 1929.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
The New Deal created a large group of new agencies referred to as these because of their acronyms.
What are alphabet agencies?
200
The statistic that tracks the loss of jobs is called this.
What is unemployment?
300
The U.S. needed to make synthetic rubber for use in World War II because the Japanese had done this.
What is cut off the supply of natural rubber from Southeast Asia?
300
LULAC supported this group's rights.
Who are Mexican Americans?
300
Ross Sterling and James V. Allred were both this.
What is governor of Texas?
300
These were organized groups that borrowed money from the government to pay for installing electrical servies.
What are cooperatives?
300
The geographic area hardest hit by drought in the 1930s was called this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
He was the Louisiana Governor who proposed "drop-a-crop."
Who is Huey Long?
400
Unhappy with education for Mexican American children in San Antonio, Eleuterio Escobar, Jr., and Maria L. de Hernandez founded this.
What is the School Improvement League?
400
One controversy under the governorship of Miriam Ferguson was the firing of several prominent members of this group.
What is the Texas Rangers?
400
This was the alphabet agency that created mostly construction jobs.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
400
Dams were constructed on the Colorado River mostly to do this.
What is generate electricity?
500
Because most Texas farmers were this type of farmer, New Deal programs did little to aid or benefit them.
What is tenant?
500
This is refusal to work as protest against an employer.
What is a strike?
500
This is an economic system in which property is owned by the government.
What is communism?
500
This alphabet agency provided outdoor employment.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
500
The percentage of unemployed members of this group during the Depression was twice that of the rest of the population.
What are African Americans?