TX24 - Review of Great Depression + WW2

Which THREE [3] of these business endeavors would have given Texas an economic boost during WORLD WAR II?

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• YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE [3] CORRECT ANSWERS

• farm equipment factories

• new military facilities

• gold mining in the mountains of West Texas

• aircraft and naval manufacturing centers

• munitions plants

More than 750,000 Texans entered the military to fight in World War II. Which of these battles would have happened during World War II?

• Texans vs. Mexican soldiers at the Alamo

• Texans vs. Union soldiers at Galveston

• Texans vs. Native Americans in the Palo Duro Canyon

• Texans vs. Japanese in the Pacific

POLITICAL - President Roosevelt implements new policies to help Americans

ECONOMIC - poor practices on the stock market led to the crash in 1929

SOCIAL - poor farmers left their farms and the unemployed waited in soup lines to survive

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• Each of these events describes an issue that affected Americans during -

• the Civil War

• the Great Depression

• the Age of Oil

• the Progressive Era

What global event caused the economy of Texas to move even further toward "industrialization"? [hint: this event happened from 1939-1945]

• the Dust Bowl

• World War II

• the Great Depression

• the Cold War

1 - Texas had a very diversified economy [split between cotton, cattle, and oil]

2 - Texas had more than a thousand CCC and WPA work camps [New Deal]

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• These are both reasons that Texas was better off than other parts of the country during -

• World War I

• the Great Depression

• the Progressive Era

• the Civil War

• * manufacturing increased fourfold

• * employment rises as factory workers are needed

• * military installations [building ships and planes] opened

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Each of these effects of World War II would BEST fit in the ____ category on a PEGS chart.

• P - Political

• E - Economic

• G - Geographic

• S - Social

Which of these Texas locations provided PILOTS with their World War II military training?

• Randolph Field in San Antonio - the leading air base in the U.S.

• Fort Worth in North Texas - used to train cavalry soldiers

• Levingston Shipbuilding near Houston - producing battleships and submarines

• Camp Crockett in Waco - where tanks fought in simulated battles

In October of 1929, the stock market crash [where stocks lost most of their value and investors lost their money] directly led to the GREAT DEPRESSION - an economic collapse that affected the entire world and lasted about ___ years.

• 2

• 10

• 30

• NONE of these are correct

• * SOCIAL - thousands of families left the Panhandle in search of new opportunities

• * ECONOMIC - farmers faced significant monetary losses and banks foreclosed on their land

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• Each of the above examples describe impacts of ___ on Texas.

• World War II

• the discovery of oil

• the Dust Bowl

• the spread of railroads

Which of these items directly led to the rapid expansion of Texas cities [known as "urbanization"] during the early 20th century?

• INDUSTRIALIZATION - moving from agriculture to manufacturing

• GOLD MINING - settlers in West Texas found gold in the mountains

• INVENTIONS -

  the telegraph, the cotton gin, barbed wire fences, and more

• PROGRESSIVE REFORMS - stopping the flow of alcohol and giving women the right to vote