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