Women's Suffrage
This Texas woman organized the first suffrage group in Texas, the Texas Equal Rights Association, in 1893.
Rebecca Henry Hayes
Texans helped soldiers by cutting back on certain goods so they could be sent overseas.
Rationing
The assassination of this person in 1914 led to the start of World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Texas provided this many troops for World War I.
200,000
This Texas governor strongly opposed women’s suffrage and was later impeached and removed from office.
James Ferguson
These three sisters founded a suffrage group in Houston in 1903.
Anette, Elizabeth, and Katharine Finnigan
During WWI, Texas farmers expanded because this crop was in high demand for uniforms.
Cotton
Germany tried to convince this country to attack the U.S. by promising to return lost land.
Mexico
This city became a major training site for American pilots during the war.
San Antonio
This governor supported women’s voting rights and signed a bill allowing women to vote in state primaries.
William P. Hobby
This suffragist from Galveston worked to recruit women across Texas to support voting rights.
This industry became Texas’ fastest-growing after World War I, replacing meatpacking.
Oil refining
This secret message from Germany to Mexico angered Americans and helped push the U.S. into World War I.
Zimmermann Telegram
This military base, originally built for aviation training in WWI, is still in operation today.
Kelly Air-Force Base
Texas suffragists made a deal with Governor Hobby, promising to support him in this election if he allowed women to vote in primaries.
State primary election
Opponents of suffrage argued that women did not need to vote because men did this for them.
Protect their rights
After the war, cotton prices dropped, leading to this economic pattern of growth followed by struggle.
Boom and bust cycle
The U.S. remained neutral until 1917, even after Germany sank this passenger ship in 1915.
Lusitania?
Many soldiers got this type of care for the first time while serving in the war.
Medical and Dental
In 1920, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted full voting rights to women.
The nineteenth amendment
Suffragists argued that voting rights would allow women to improve these areas of society.
What are schools, playgrounds, and public health
In 1914, Texas had only 40,000 registered cars and trucks, but by the late 1920s, the number grew to over this many
One million
In April 1917, this U.S. president asked Congress to declare war on Germany
President Woodrow Wilson
More than 5,000 Texans died in World War I, many not from battle but from this deadly outbreak in 1918
The flu epidemic
The “Petticoat Lobby” worked to reform these two major issues affecting children.
Literacy and child labor