Progressives and Disasters

High winds, drought, overgrazing and over plowing are all

• Causes of the Galveston Storm

• Causes of the Dust Bowl

• Causes of the Texas City Explosion

• Causes of the Gilded Age

Steps taken to help prevent major damage in Galveston include

• seawall, Cline fired

• no steps taken

• seawall, raised city

• products labeled

Which disaster was a natural disaster?

• Dust Bowl

• Galveston Storm

• Texas City Disaster

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

The great era of change is called

• progressivism

• republicanism

• suffrage

• temperance

After the Galveston Storm, Galveston changed their government to a

• mayor council

• strong mayor

• weak mayor

• commission

A period of drought, dust storms, and high winds on the plains is the

• Galveston Storm

• Texas City Disaster

• Dust Bowl

Where did Dust Bowl migrants move in hopes of starting new?

• New York

• Texas

• Minnesota

• California

Dust pneumonia, animals choking to death, houses buried in sand, and ruined farms were all results of the

• Texas City Disaster

• Dust Bowl

• Galveston Storm

• Industrialization

An economic impact of the Galveston Storm was

• losing it's leading trade port.

• dust pneumonia.

• moving westward.

• a commission form of government.