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Not a QuizletTXHistory
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Barbed Wire | Barrier; Ended Open Range |
| Railroads in TX | Increase commerce |
| Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty (1867) | Stop Raids; Move to OK or Reservation; Relief in Return |
| New Deal | Relief, Recovery, Reform from Government in 1930's; Mixed results on effect |
| TX Independence | 1836 |
| TX Secession | 1861 |
| Spanish Exploration of TX | 1528 (Narvaez/de Vaca) |
| Cattle Drives | Livestock to Railroads |
| Texas A & M and Morrill Act (land grants for higher ed.) | 1876 |
| Dr. Michael De Bakey | Heart by-pass surgery |
| Dust Bowl (weather) | Drought, wind |
| Dust Bowl (modifications) | Over Grazing; Over farming; Dry farming |
| Most Civil Rights' gains of 1950's-1960's | Desegregation of schools public accommodations; anti-discrimination in workplace; voting rights |
| Civil Rights Presidents | FDR - Started idea; Truman - desegregated the Army; Eisenhower - Little Rock and Two Civil Rights Act; JFK PUSHED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963; LBJ - IT BECAME THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, PLUS VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 |
| Progressive Reforms | Women's rights, unions, more direct democracy, help for minorities |
| TX was Democratic Party majority, but in the 1970's... | Switched to Republican Majority |
| Great Depression Presidents | Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Barbara Jordan | African-American woman elected to US Congress |
| Urban Industries in TX (turn of 20th Century) | oil, banks, RR's |
| Boom and Bust | Economy is good, and oil is flowing...OR...prices low, demand low and the derricks are not moving! |
| NASA | Houston, TX; thank you LBJ (Clear Lake area) |
| Outsourcing companies to Mexico reasons | Cheaper land, taxes, labor |
| Antitrust Law | prevents companies from conspiring to control ALL about a business (like a monopoly) |
| TX Bill of Rights | like US Bill of Rights protections |
| Worst Natural Disaster | Still 1900 Great Storm on Galveston Island |
| Great Depression | 1929 Stock Market Crash, followed by an unprecedented financial panic world wide |
| Galveston modifications | seawall; raise island's buildings |
| First battle in TX v. Mexico | Gonzalez (Come and Take It) |
| Biggest users of Petroleum fuel | Automobiles and airplanes |
| Reconstruction | 1865'ish' to 1877 |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Technology sequence | Think Stone Age to Agricultural (Neolithic) Revolution to Industrial Revolution to Computer Technology |
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