Sections 2 and 3

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Changes for Texas

• Chapter 20,
• Sections 2 and 3

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Progressive Movement

• As Texans moved to cities, they found new
  problems and became more aware of existing ones.
• The attempts of reformers to solve those problems
  became known as the Progressive Movement.

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Galveston Invents New City Government

• Replaced mayor and city council with a 5 member
  commission
• Made laws for the city
• Each commissioner in charge
  of a different department
• Spread to over 400 cities
  around the U.S.

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Terrell Election Law

• Secret ballots
• Restricted campaigning near
  voting area
• Required that major parties
  hold primary elections to select
  candidates

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Votes for Women

• Suffrage the right to vote
• Opponents said men would
  protect womens rights (uh huh!)
  and that women would neglect their homes
  and children if they were involved in politics
• Suffragists said they would vote for better
  schools, more playgrounds, safe parks, and
  improved public health

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Lets Make a Deal!

• 1918 Texas women promised to support Governor
  William P. Hobby if he would sign a bill granting
  women the right to vote in primary
  elections.
• He agreed and won the election in a landslide!

William P. Hobby
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19th Amendment

• Gave full voting rights for women all over the
  United States
  in 1920

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Prohibition

• Many groups believed that many of the problems in
  society could be solved if liquor was made
  illegal.
• Texas Anti-Saloon
  League worked to outlaw
  drinking
  in Texas.

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18th Amendment

• 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  prohibited the sale, consumption, and possession
  of alcoholic beverages
  all over the U.S.
• Prohibition lasted from
  1920 to 1933 when
  it was
  repealed.

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And now for the bad news -

• African Americans actually
  lost rights during the first
  part of the 20th Century
• All over the South, the Democratic Party
  passed laws
  discriminating against
  African Americans

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Jim Crow Laws

• Racial segregation of public facilities such as
  schools, restaurants, hotels, professional
  sports, water fountains, restrooms.
• Poll taxes required
  paying a fee in order
  to vote

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Other Jim Crow Laws

• Literacy Tests required reading and explaining
  parts of the Constitution in
  order to vote
• Grandfather clauses exempted
  whites from having
  to take literacy tests

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1965 Alabama Literacy Test

• If a person is indicted for a crime,
  name two rights which he has.
• A U.S. senator elected at the general election in
  November takes office the following year on what
  date?
• A President elected at the general election in
  November takes office the following year on what
  date?

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Cultures Clash in South Texas

• Midwestern immigrants
  developed farms to grow
  fruit, vegetables, cotton,
  and sugar
  cane.
• Mexican immigrants came to Texas to escape the
  Mexican Revolution of 1910.
• Fear and ignorance led to violence between these
  2 groups.
• Texas Rangers often
  added to the problems.

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Mutualistas

• Mexican and Tejano men and women formed mutual
  aid societies to help maintain Mexican culture
  and to provide help for low income families in
  the communities.

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NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

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What can YOU do to ERASE HATE?
Kleb - Texas - USA NO PLACE FOR HATE!
It begins with YOU!
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Assignment Make a poster supporting or opposing
one of these issues or groups

• Terrell Election Law
• Prohibition
  (18th Amendment)
• Womens Suffrage (19th
  Amendment)
• Jim Crow Laws
• Mutualistas

• Must include
• Slogan
• What the law or group did
• Why you support or oppose it
• Picture - neat and in
  color