WorksheetsThe Prosperity Decade, 1921-1929
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
___________ and industrial production both experienced tremendous growth in the boom era of the 1920's.
Medical
Agriculture
Entertainment
Political
_________ were examples of discrimination against minority Texans.
a poll tax
all white Democratic primary
literacy tests
all of the above
The modern Ku Klux Klan emerged as a symbol against the forces all of the following EXCEPT: f conservative backlash against urbanization, immigration, women’s suffrage, and other symbols of modernization in the 1920s.
women's suffrage
civil rights
immigration
the Democratic Party
The Klan drew the majority of its support from __________.
rural areas
urban areas
equally across all areas of the state
El Paso and the Rio Grand Valley
"Business Progressives" in Texas in the 1920s supported all of the following EXCEPT:
administrative reform
infrastructure development
improved financing
mandatory 80 hour weeks
In 1928 Texas led all other states in the production of ____________.
corn
gold
oil
steel
Irrigation of land once used for cattle grazing opened up vast, new farmland for the production of ____________ in the High Plains.
cotton
citrus crops
sorghum
millet
With 170,000 members in Texas and control of the Texas delegation to the Democratic Party in 1924, the ____________ aimed to control the state government as well.
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
La Raza Unida
The Grange
KKK
The KKK increased its targets for terror and harassment to include not only upwardly mobile African Americans, but also immigrants, Catholics, and ____________.
Baptists
Jews
Irish
Democratic Farmers
Texas broke its long standing commitment to the national Democratic Party in 1928 when it nominated the northern, Catholic, anti-prohibitionist ____________ of New York for the Presidency.
Al Smith
Robert Francis O'Rourke
Ted Cruz
Kevin McCarthy
