Civics & Government
Taking part in activities that help your community or government.
What is Civic Participation?
A long period of severe economic decline with high unemployment.
What is an Economic Depression?
A long period with little or no rainfall.
What is Drought?
Civilians supporting the war effort at home.
What is the Home Front?
The forced separation of people based on race.
What is Segregation?
The duties citizens must perform to support democracy.
What is Civic Responsibility?
The place where stocks are bought and sold.
What is the Stock Market?
Severe 1930s dust storms that damaged farms in the Texas Panhandle.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Limiting food and supplies during wartime.
What is Rationing?
A person who takes action to bring about change.
What is an Activist?
The 1954 Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The 1929 event that helped trigger the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
Countryside areas with farms and small populations.
What is Rural?
Forcing Japanese Americans into guarded camps during WWII.
What is Internment?
The 1964 law that ended segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The Texas Supreme Court case that gave Mexican Americans equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
A pattern of economic growth followed by decline, common in the oil industry.
What is the Boom-and-Bust Cycle?
Communities outside major cities that grew after WWII.
What are Suburbs?
Women trained in Texas who flew military aircraft during WWII.
Who were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)?
The Texas president who signed major Civil Rights laws.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The law that banned literacy tests and protected minority voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Government programs like the CCC and WPA created during the Great Depression.
What are the New Deal Programs?
Goods brought into Texas from another country.
What is an Import?
Locations in Texas where soldiers and pilots trained.
What are Military Training Bases?
Founder of the American GI Forum who fought discrimination against Mexican Americans.
Who is Hector P. Garcia?