Texas History - Unit 9 - Review Game 2 Question Preview (ID: 58889)


Prosperity And The Great Depression. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Dallas became a major financial center after the _____ _____ System built a district bank there in 1914.
a) Federal Reserve
b) Department of Banking
c) Banking Commission
d) Petticoat Lobby

A new kind of music called _____ was popular in vaudeville shows.
a) blues
b) jazz
c) ragtime
d) pop

Houston boomed after the Houston _____ _____ made transportation cheaper between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
a) Water Commission
b) Ship Channel
c) Department of Health
d) Commission Plan

Which of the following was U.S. general who pursued Pancho Villa in northern Mexico?
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) Scott Joplin
c) William Sydney Porter
d) John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing

Which of the following was an American officer who led the Rough Riders in battle against Spanish forces in Cuba?
a) Scott Joplin
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Elisabet Ney
d) John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing

Which of the following was a well-known sculptor who immigrated to Texas from Germany in 1872?
a) Adina Emilia De Zavala
b) Elisabet Ney
c) William Sydney Porter
d) Scott Joplin

Which of the following terms means not allied with any side during a conflict?
a) urbanization
b) neutral
c) monopoly
d) cooperative

Which of the following is a central banking system that distributes money to other banks and helps regulate them?
a) Plan de San Diego
b) Rough Riders
c) Federal Reserve System
d) Petticoat Lobby

Which of the following was a short story writer who used the pen name of O. Henry?
a) Elisabet Ney
b) Adina Emilia De Zavala
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) William Sydney Porter

Which of the following means an increase in people living or working in cities?
a) urbanization
b) reservation
c) radicals
d) neutral

Which of the following was a ragtime musician and composer from Texarkana?
a) William Sydney Porter
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing
d) Scott Joplin

Which of the following was a document that called for Mexican Americans to take control of South Texas?
a) Federal Reserve System
b) Water Commission
c) Plan de San Diego
d) Rough Riders

Which of the following terms means people forced to leave their homeland because of war or persecution?
a) urbanization
b) refugees
c) radicals
d) neutral

Progressive changes in education did not benefit all Texans equally because ...
a) rural schools were not as well provided for as urban schools.
b) some teachers were not as well paid as others.
c) the state established separate funding for schools based on race.
d) West Texas schools were mainly devoted to agricultural training.

Governor Hogg created the Texas Railroad Commission because ...
a) excessive competition between lines threatened stability in the market.
b) it had become necessary to have a body that could enforce regulations.
c) Regulations in the legislature had demanded it.
d) the state wanted to increase traffic on the railroads.

Democrats weakened the Populist Party when they ...
a) urged farmers not to vote.
b) refused to support William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
c) adopted some of its programs as their own.
d) challenged its right to run candidates for office.

The Southern Farmer's Alliance left the Democratic Party in 1891 over the ...
a) failure of the Democrats to support the Alliance's subtreasury plan.
b) right of women to vote.
c) issue of railroad regulation.
d) objections of the newly formed Populist Party.

Farmers and other customers objected to railroads 'pooling' because ...
a) there were not enough rail cars to go around.
b) it created too much competition between railroads.
c) industrial shippers received preferential rates.
d) pooling reduced competition and kept shipping costs high.

Public health in Texas is the responsibility of the Texas _____ _____ _____, established in 1903.
a) Department of Commerce
b) Department of Finance
c) Department of Health
d) Department of Transportation

Mexican rebel _____ _____ _____ invaded New Mexico in 1916.
a) James Stephen Hogg
b) Lawrence A. Nixon
c) Francisco 'Pancho' Villa
d) Adina Emilia de Zavala

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