The war diminished the supply of natural resources in Texas, forcing Texas to import resources from other states.

Texas economy remained mainly agricultural as the resources ran low.

The wartime need for these natural resources helped bring about great industrial expansion in Texas.

The abundance of natural resources in Texas led to attacks by the Axis powers.

Texas leaders supported the Louisiana law banning cotton and oil production.

They had to decrease their production to make prices rise.

The owners of companies were impacted more by reduced production.

They had to weigh their products carefully to make sure they got the right price.

It strengthened their resolve to achieve equal rights after the war.

It ended their fight, as they achieved equality during the war.

It convinced them to use different methods to achieve equal rights.

It allowed them to make considerable progress toward equality.

They purchased abandoned farms in the Dust Bowl area.

They planted more acres using aid from New Deal agencies.

They left farms to find work in the cities.

They moved to Mexico to farm there.

It relied on businesses to solve the crisis.

It stressed ending the Dust Bowl to fix the economy.

It relied on charitable organizations to provide relief.

It called for a greater role for the federal government.

To celebrate the centennial of Texas

To lower the amount of Social Security payments

To employ people during the Great Depression

To fix state and federal election laws

The national forests created during the New Deal were located in the Davis Mountains.

During the New Deal, schools were built in dozens of cities, including Tyler, Sherman, and Jacksboro.

During the New Deal, workers developed more than twenty state parks in Texas, including those at Big Bend, Longhorn Cavern, and Palo Duro Canyon.

The San Jacinto Monument and Museum was not one of the construction projects completed during the New Deal.

It took twenty years for members of the Texas Anti-Saloon League to finally achieve their goal.

Women were not permitted to vote or hold office in Texas until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.

Members of the Prohibition and the woman suffrage movements achieved their goals through passage of amendments to the Constitution.

Many women used their newly won right to vote to support passage of the Eighteenth Amendment.

Shipbuilding, meatpacking, and natural gas

Timber, oil, and finance

Oil, cattle, and cotton

Wheat, steel, and coal

Gambling

Firearms

Tobacco

Alcohol

Nearly all of America’s military pilots were trained there.

General John J. Pershing trained Texan National Guard troops there.

German Texans were detained there during the war.

Mexican American troops were trained there.