CHAPTER 26 – Trashball Review

Row is team Only person w/number paper answers and represents team No whispering answers to team mates Papers down when someone is called on to answer EYES on screen for all questions --- THIS IS YOUR REVIEW, SO PAY ATTENTION! There is always the textbook to review!!! Don’t make me go there!!!

Time in US history when stock market crashed, high unemployment rate, bread lines and soup kitchens.

The Depression

During the Great Depression, some Texans resorted to eating this animal when they had nothing else to eat.

Armadillo

Said, “Two governors for the price of one.”

Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

What did Ma Ferguson mean when she said elect her as governor and Texans will have, “two governors for the price of one.”

Her husband, James Ferguson was once a TX governor

\ 100th birthday celebrate is called….. Texas celebrated in 1936

centennial

Area in Texas impacted most severely by dust storms

Panhandle

During the New Deal era, this agency helped Texas farm families gain access to electricity

Rural Electrification Administration

Moving from wartime to peacetime is called…

demobilization

Ma Ferguson took a strong stance against this group in Texas…

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

A reformer A TX governor Youngest TX governor as of 1926

Dan Moody

Declared martial law in TX and put an end to RxR strikes.

Pat Neff

Overgrazing, plowing and drought… these are 3 reason why what event happened?

Dust Bowl

LULAC was established in the early 1900’s to help what minority group?

Mexican Americans (League of United Latin American Citizens)

NAACP formed in the early 1900’s sought to help fight for civil right of which minority group?

African Americans

Famous wildcatter who struck it rich like many others during the early 1920’s.

C.M. “Dad” Joiner

Which style of music developed during the 1920’s

Jazz

Entertainment in Texas changed dramatically with the introduction of the

radio

Nickname for armadillos during the Great Depression…

Hoover Hogs

Under the New Deal, this agency provided jobs for some 100,000 Texans.

Civilian Conservation Corps

This governor had been a radio personality before beginning his political career.

W. Lee O’Daniel

Governor Miriam Ferguson issued an order creating this program to help Texans during the Depression.

Texas Relief Commission

Why did some boxcar kids leave their homes during the Depression?

Shame of families poverty, or felt that if they left that would be one less mouth for family to have to feed.

How had farmers damaged the lands on the Great Plains before the Dust Bowl struck?

Plowed the fields, planting wheat

Agency set up during the Depression to help provide money for those who were not receiving a paycheck.

Social Security

How had ranchers damaged the lands on the Great Plains before the Dust Bowl struck?

Cattle overgrazing

Name a new dance created during the Roaring 20’s

Foxtrot Charleston Bunny Hug