Age of Oil, Great Depression, WW2

Which of the following would be a good title for this diagram?

• Industrialization Leads to Urbanization

• Rural Population of Texas Increases

• Texans Adapt and Modify Their Environment

• World War I Changes Texas Politically

Based on the map, which TWO of the following generalizations about early Texas oil fields is accurate?

• Numerous oil wells were located within a few miles of the town of Corpus Christi.

• Most of Texas’s earliest oil wells were drilled in the area of Abilene.

• As of 1920, no oil fields had been established in the Mountain and Basins region

• Numerous oil wells were located along the Texas-Mexico border

• There were oil fields established in Texas before 1900.

Which of the following titles best completes the middle bubble of the diagram above?

• Mexican immigration’s impact on Texas

• Great Depression’s impact on Texas

• Reconstruction’s impact on Texas

• Dust Bowl’s impact on Texas

Which of the following is a SOCIAL characteristic of World War 1?

• Women entered the workforce to replace the men fighting in the war.

• The oil industry benefited from increased demand for machinery

• German ambassador Arthur Zimmerman tried to encourage Mexico to enter the war on Germany's side

• Texas had a warm climate and open land

Which of the following is an ECONOMIC characteristic of World War 1?

• Women entered the workforce to replace the men fighting in the war.

• The oil industry benefited from increased demand for machinery

• German ambassador Arthur Zimmerman tried to encourage Mexico to enter the war on Germany's side

• Texas had a warm climate and open land

Which of the following is a POLITICAL characteristic of World War 1?

• Women entered the workforce to replace the men fighting in the war.

• The oil industry benefited from increased demand for machinery

• German ambassador Arthur Zimmerman tried to encourage Mexico to enter the war on Germany's side

• Texas had a warm climate and open land

Using the map above, which statement is the MOST accurate about the Dust Bowl?

• All of Texas was devastated from the effects of the Dust Bowl

• The Coastal Plains was the region most affected by the Dust Bowl.

• Texas was largely unaffected by the Dust Bowl.

• The Dust Bowl affected the entire Texas panhandle during the Great Depression

Which TWO of the following were effects of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?

• Galveston became the fourth largest city in the state.

• The city of Galveston never fully recovered from the storm.

• Galveston island was raised, and a seawall built to protect the island.

• The city of Galveston moved further inland to avoid future hurricanes.

• Galveston replaced Houston as the most important financial center in the region.

Which group of terms and names is related to the era of Texas history known as "Texas in the Great Depression and World War 2"?

• Chisolm Trail, King Ranch,

  James Hogg

• Howard Hughes,

  Houston Ship Channel,

  Ship Channel

• Black Tuesday, John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner,

  Camp Hood

• Succession, Reconstruction, Jim Crow

• Stephen F. Austin, Empresario,

  Green DeWitt

Select THREE physical factors leading to the Dust Bowl.

• Drought caused the ground to dry out and crops to die

• As the winds blew it further dried out the ground and began the process of erosion

• After the war inflation of prices led to farmers plowing up even more land and exposing more topsoil

• As the dust blew it created static electricity that kept the dust particles suspended in the air instead of falling back to the ground