5th 6 Weeks Review

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5th 6 Weeks Review
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1. How did windmills increase the population in
West Texas?

• Settlers did not have to depend on sources of
  surface water

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2. What caused urban areas to grow during WWII?

• There was an increase in industrial jobs

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3. Why was Spindletop significant in Texas?

• That is where the Texas petroleum/oil industry
  began

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4. The Texas economy moved towards
industrialization during what era?

• World War II era

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5. During World War I, what did Germany promise
Mexico if they joined them in fighting the United
States?

• To help Mexico regain control of the southwestern
  United States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona)

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6. How did the booming oil industry affect Texas
during the 1970s?

• People from all over immigrated to Texas

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7. Which part of Texas gets the most
precipitation?

• East Texas (Gulf Coast Plains)

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8. Which part of Texas gets the least amount of
precipitation?

• West Texas (Mountains and Basins)

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9. Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

• African American soldiers who guarded the Texas
  frontier after the Civil War

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10. Who was the first Texas governor born in
Texas?

• James Hogg

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11. Who was James Farmer?

• African American civil rights leader

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12. What would be the effect on the oil industry
in Texas if cars in the future run on electricity?

• It would suffer because there would not be as
  high of a demand for oil

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13. How would you describe Dwight D. Eisenhower?

• He was a military leader during WWII

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14. How did the oil industry shape the
development of a city like Odessa?

• The town grew as the demand for oil increased

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15. What has Galveston done since the Hurricane
of 1900 to protect themselves from future storms?

• They built a seawall

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16. Why did farmers settle in West Texas after
the invention of barbed wire?

• They were able to protect their crops from cattle

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17. What types of items did Texans ration during
World War II to help support American soldiers?

• Food, shoes, gas

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18. Where there is military conflict in an
oil-exporting country, the price of oil usually
goes up. Why?

• The available supply of the worlds oil is reduced

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19. What things would have caused a bust in the
farming cycle?

• Insects, droughts, higher crop prices

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20. A political candidate who supported the
Progressive movement would look to improve what
kind of things?

• Laws that improve working conditions in factories

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21. Why would someone who owned land in Beaumont,
Texas want to sell it in January 1901?

• Discovery of oil in the area

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22. List these events in chronological order
Discovery of oil at Spindletop, stock market
crash, invention of barbed wire, Dust Bowl

• Invention of barbed wire 1873
• Discovery of oil at Spindletop 1901
• Stock market crash 1929
• Dust Bowl 1930-1936

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23. In West Texas what would happen if ranchers
pumped water out of aquifers to get water for
their herds?

• Natural streams and springs would dry up

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24. The economic effects of the Texas oil
industry

• Oil refining jobs in East Texas
• Oil drilling in West Texas
• Oil research and development

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25. How has the discovery of oil in Texas led
Texas communities and the rest of the world to
become dependent on each other?

• Worldwide demand for oil products continues to
  increase

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26. What would cause people on the outskirts of
Houston during the 1960s to vote mostly
Democratic and then by the end of the 1990s to
vote 8 out of 10 Republican?

• Sun Belt Migration