Suburbs & Growth
These planned communities outside cities grew after WWII.
What are suburbs?
The U.S. feared this idea spreading during the Cold War.
What is communism?
President Truman ended segregation in this group.
What is the military?
This act ended discrimination in public places and jobs.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This party controlled Texas politics after Reconstruction.
What is the Democratic Party?
Texas became more urbanized as which industries expanded?
What are aircraft manufacturing, oil refineries, and electronics?
The U.S. and Soviet Union competed to build powerful weapons in this.
What is an arms race?
This Supreme Court case ruled public school segregation illegal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This act protected the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Republicans gained support after this president won Texas in 1952.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
What invention helped people move to suburbs more easily?
What is the automobile (cars)?
This Soviet satellite pushed the U.S. to invest in science.
What is Sputnik?
This Texas case ruled unequal law schools unconstitutional.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
This president pushed civil rights laws and the Great Society.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Texans worried about government spending and __________ control.
What is federal control?
These connected cities and suburbs and helped move goods.
What are highways (roads)?
This U.S. space agency was created after Sputnik.
What is NASA?
This civil rights leader helped found CORE.
Who is James L. Farmer Jr.?
These programs helped fight poverty, improve health, and education.
What is the Great Society?
WWII ended this major economic problem in Texas.
What is the Great Depression?
This Texas city became mission control for space missions.
What is Houston?
CORE supported protests that were __________.
What are nonviolent protests?
This speech inspired support for civil rights laws.
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
By the 1970s, Texas elected its first __________ governor in decades.
What is a Republican governor?