For texas history
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| James Farmer | created Congress of Racial Equality
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| Hector P. Garcia | founded the American GI Forum
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| Lyndon Baines Johnson | Signed Civil Rights Act 1964
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| Susan B. Anthony | Quaker who fought for women’s suffrage
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| Thurgood Marshall | Civil Rights leader who was a Supreme Court justice
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| African Americans | 2nd largest minority group in Texas
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| Hispanics | expected to have the highest increase in population through 2015
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| Civil rioghts act of 1964 | made it illegal for public places to discriminate based on race
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| poll tax | tax that charged people to vote… blacks could not pay in many cases.
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| house bill # 72 | origination of “No Pass No Play” rule
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| Maquiladoras | U.S. assembly plants south of the Mexican border
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| Robin hood plan | law passed in 1993 requiring wealthier schools to share money with poorer districts
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| boycott | when a government stops trade with another government
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| Legislative Bra | branch of government that makes law
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| Executive branch | branch of government that carries out the law
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| Judicial branch | branch of government that decides if laws are fair
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| Gilmer-Aiken Bills | laws established to improve teacher training, raise teacher salaries, provide textbooks, and required students to attend school for 9 months
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| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement between U.S., Canada, and Mexico North American Free Trade Agreement between U.S., Canada, and Mexico
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| Ways in which Federal Government can influence Texas economy | energy policies, export agreements with other countries, agriculture regulations
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| Majority of Texans | live in urban-cities
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| Because of Hispanic population growth | more people will be Spanish speaking in next 20 years
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| Crime | increased in cities because people moved to suburbs
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| Austin | one of the country’s top locations for high tech
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| Houston | largest port in Texas
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| San Antonio | has large number of tourist attractions
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| Suburbs | 1950s and 60s… people moved here from cities to get away from crowding, pollution, crime, etc
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| Families moving off the farm 1950s and 60s | did so because could not make a living
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