Texas History - Unit 9 - Review Game 3 Question Preview (ID: 58890)


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

Streetcars allowed Texans to live in _____ where their lifestyles were more like that in the country.
a) missions
b) inner cities
c) suburbs
d) settlements

In the _____-_____ War, American troops won a major victory in Cuba.
a) French and Indian War
b) Canadian-US
c) Spanish-Canadian
d) Spanish-American

The state established the Texas _____ _____ to meet the demand in rapidly growing cities and to manage available resources.
a) Water Commission
b) Utilities Franchise
c) Health Department
d) Federal Reserve

Adina Emilia de Zavala tried to protect the _____ from destruction by barricading herself inside it for three days.
a) State Capitol
b) Water Commission
c) Alamo
d) Fort Hood

Nearly 200,000 Texans fought in _____ _____ _____ after the United States declared war in 1917.
a) World War II
b) Vietnam War
c) World War I
d) New Mexico conflict

Increasing efficiency led to major problems for farmers as ...
a) there was no more frontier land to be had.
b) they needed more and more farm workers.
c) agricultural surpluses caused prices to fall.
d) there was little time for recreation, even on Sundays.

The largest number of newcomers to Texas in the early 1900s were from ...
a) Mexico and Central America.
b) Germany and Central Europe.
c) midwestern farm states.
d) other southern states.

Public health became a major issue in Texas because of ...
a) poor water quality in rural areas.
b) problems brought on by rapid urbanization.
c) the declining birthrate.
d) the shortage of doctors in smaller countries.

U.S. Marines were sent to Veracruz in 1914 because ...
a) the United States was considering the annexation of Mexico.
b) the Mexican government had asked for help.
c) Pancho Villa had sent troops into New Mexico.
d) the United States feared the arrival of a German weapons shipment.

Some Texans became suspicious of German Americans in 1917 because ...
a) the United States had gone to war against Germany.
b) many of them left to fight for Germany.
c) they refused to learn English and send their children to school.
d) their fathers had filed to support the Union in 1862.

Which of the following means an election in which voters select persons to run in a later general election?
a) stocks
b) proration
c) demobilization
d) primary election

Which of the following was a governor who opposed government programs like unemployment relief?
a) Pat Neff
b) Dan Moody
c) Ross Sterling
d) Lawrence A. Nixon

Which of the following is the process of moving from a wartime to a peacetime economy?
a) self-reliance
b) scrip
c) demobilization
d) proration

Which of the following means proportionate divisionor distribution?
a) self-reliance
b) proration
c) stocks
d) scrip

Which of the following means paper notes issued by local governments instead of money?
a) proration
b) stocks
c) scrip
d) primary election

Which of the following was governor who declared martial law to put down a railroad strike?
a) C.M. 'Dad' Joiner
b) Lawrence A. Nixon
c) Pat Neff
d) Dan Moody

Which of the following was a wildcatter who brought in the Daisy Bradford No. 3 oil well in 1930?
a) John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing
b) Ross Sterling
c) C. M. 'Dad' Joiner
d) Dan Moody

Which of the following means shares of ownership in a company?
a) proration
b) stocks
c) urbanization
d) pooling

Which of the following is what some Texans called armadillos during the Great Depression?
a) Hoover Hogs
b) Petticoat Lobby
c) Rough Riders
d) Dust Bowl

Which of the following was an African American doctor from El Paso, who sued the state in 1924 when he was not allowed to vote in a primary?
a) Ross Sterling
b) Pat Neff
c) Theodore Roosevelt
d) Lawrence A. Nixon

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