founder and later director of the

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

program lauched by President Johnson

for sweeping reforms to improve the

lives of Texans

Texan who served in the U.S. House of

Representatives for 37 years

actions by Hispanics in the 1960s

for political change and an end

to discrimination

Texan who became president after

John F. Kennedy’s assassination

protests that involve refusing to leave

a location

Great Society legislation that

funded job training and community

action programs

political organization formed in 1970 to

focus on Hispanic issues and elect

Hispanics to office

surgeon who performed the first arterial

bypass operation

Oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s, and the Texas oil business boomed after

President Lyndon Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968 because

Congress acted decisively to end segregation in public places with passage of

The aerospace industry in Texas flourished because of

Texas cities grew rapidly toward the end of the 1900s because of

Austin was part of a new trend of growth in the South and Southwest, known as the 

Between 1970 and 1980 the Mexican American population in Texas grew by nearly

Between 1970 and 1980 most Texas immigrants were from

In what year did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ban oil shipments to the United States?

The boom in the Texas oil industry came to a halt when oil prices dropped in

In 1971 the Texas Democratic Party was disgraced when it was discovered that several officials had accepted bribes from

Which of the following political parties grew in Texas during the 1970s?

Who was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction?

In 1972 the length of the Texas governor’s term in office was changed from two years to

Which of the following people was the first Republican to be elected governor of Texas since 1874?

Texas governor who was the first to serve a four-year term 

First Republican elected governor since 1874

Republican who carried Texas in the 1972 presidential election

First Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Reconstruction

Quality of life was an important factor in the Sunbelt ____________.

The cities of ____ and Dallas grew rapidly during the 1970s as industry boomed there.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the number of manufacturing jobs grew by more than 100 percent in Dallas, ___________, and Houston.

The Soviet satellite known as ____________ was launched in 1957.

In 1964 Texas doctor ____ performed the first arterial bypass operation to repair a damaged heart.

Texas doctor _________ performed the first heart transplant in 1968.

By 1965 ________ Corporation was the number one weapons exporter in the United States.

____________Texas, became another high-tech research center as companies such as IBM built facilities there during the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1981 ________ became the first shuttle launched into space.

The National _____________ Administration took charge of the U.S. space program and worked to make U.S. goals in space a reality.

By the late 1950s, Dallas, Fort Worth, and ________ had become centers for the electronics industry.

Bus rides through the South taken by  civil rights activists

banned segregation in public places

place where Martin Luther King Jr.  and thousands of Americans marched in 1963

gave the federal government the power to check state voting procedures and to protect citizens’ right to vote

person who led civil rights protests through his organization—the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Which of the following people was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963?

Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in

Under the Johnson administration, Congress passed an immigration act that allowed more people to come to the United States from Latin America and

To which political party did Lyndon B. Johnson belong?

In 1935 Lyndon B. Johnson became director of the Texas division of the