Contemporary Texas Table of Contents Expanding the Frontier 1866-1880 Cattle Trails Closing the Frontier Progressive Era 1892-1926 World War I Women’s Suffrage Populism Agrarian Groups
Age of Oil 1900-Present The Great Depression 1929- 1945 Hurricane of 1900 Roads and Railroads Spindletop Humble Oil Company Houston Ship Channel The Great Depression 1929- 1945 The Dust Bowl World War II
Civil Rights Movement 1950- Present Tea Map Important People Lyndon B. Johnson James Farmer Oreta Culp Hobby Lawrence Sullivan Ross John Nance Garner Kay Bailey Hutchison Barbara Jordan Sam Rayburn Raymond L. Telles Raul A Gonzalez Jr. Dwight Eisenhower
Vocabulary Barbed wire Windmill Irrigation Mechanized agriculture Soil conservation Republican Democrat Child labor Populists Suffrage Reform
Minorities Rural Urban Desegregation temperance