Great Depression, WWII, and Civil Rights

What was "hot oil" ?

• oil sold at the highest price per barrel

• oil produced illegally

• oil sold to foreign countries

• oil that burned in the Texas heat

What Texas city was home to the largest naval air-training center in the world during World War II?

• Texas City

• Galveston

• San Antonio

• Corpus Christi

What was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan of social and economic reforms called?

• the New Deal

• the Great Society

• Job Corps

• Medicare

Which Supreme Court ruling forced schools across the country to begin to integrate racially?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Smith v. Allwright

Which of the following did Miriam “Ma” Ferguson accomplish as governor?

• winning voters’ support for $20 million in bonds to help feed hungry people

• setting up retirement systems for teachers and state employees

• founding the Public Works Administration

• overturning the Texas “white primary” law

How did Franklin Roosevelt’s approach to the Great Depression differ from that of Herbert Hoover?

• It relied on business to solve the crisis.

• It called for a greater role for the federal government

• It stressed ending the Dust Bowl to fix the economy.

• It relied on charitable organizations to provide relief.

_________ was a wildcatter who found oil near Kilgore in East Texas.

• Patillo Higgins

• Anthony Lucas

• Columbus Marion (“Dad”) Joiner

• Ross Sterling

What was the significance of construction projects like the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore?

• both were public works projects that provided employment for thousands of men

• both were tourist attractions that provided drained the US economy

• both were responsible for the deaths of thousands of men

• both were the first job sites where women and children could work daily

What is a centennial ?

• a work of art painted on a wall or ceiling

• a way of dealing with a problem or issue

• denoting or relating to a period of a thousand years

• a one-hundred-year anniversary of an event

What were two basic causes of the Dust Bowl during the early 1930s?

• strip mining and toxic waste dumping

• clear-cutting of forests and construction of railroads

• over farming and severe drought

• overpopulation and urban sprawl