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Galveston Storm
The Galveston storm started in the 1900s in Galveston TX. Durring the storm winds reached 145 mile an hour winds. There where between 6,000 and 12,000 lives lost. -
Spindletop
On Jann 10 1901 Texas had truck oil -
world war 1
World war 1 lasted untill september 11,1918 after great forces from Great Britan,France, and Russia. After 4 years of hard fighting the war finally ended but was leading to hatetred of many countrys and leading to another world war. Durring the war about 4,200,000 people died. -
The 19th amendment
The 19th amendment passed womens right to vote at polls. Sentor Wadsworthvspoke of results in Massachusetts, New Jersey,Pennsylvania,West Virginis.Ohio,Loussiannia, and Texas. Also other states where women suffarge was deffeted at the polls -
The 18th Addment
Augest 18 1920 the 18th addment had passed its final hurdle of making and selling allchol in every state in publiuc. It made it illegal to have make or sell it for a certin period of time. It also banded transporting of any allchol -
First Women Governor Of Texas
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson the first women govenor of texas heald her office untill 1927. Later winning another term in 1932 and serving until 1935.James Ferguson served as Governor of Texas from 1915 to 1917. However, he was taken out, and convicted, and removed from office during his second term. -
Great depression and dust bowl
In 1931, a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains. As crops died and winds picked up, dust storms began. As the Dust Bowl photograph shows, crops literally blew away in black blizzards... By 1934, 75% of the United States was severely affected by this terrible drought. -
World War 2
Before the war, Texas was sparsely populated; there were more people living in New York City at the time than in the entire state of Texas. Most Texans lived on farms or ranches or in small towns, and only about 40 percent had a high school education. Only one in five owned an automobile, one in ten had access to a telephone and one in six owned a radio,and texas was going into the war very poor and could not supply the army with strong and good weapons. -
Sweat vs. painter
In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected because of his race. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. -
Brown vs. Board
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century 954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that segregated public facilities were constitutional so long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other -
Henry B gonzalez being elected in us congress
He had his education at the University of Texas and San Antonio College. In 1943 he graduated from St. Mary's University School of Law. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was called to government service and worked as a civilian cable and radio censor for military and naval intelligence. After graduation he worked as assistant juvenile probation officer, quickly rising to chief probation officer of the Bexar County Juvenile Court. In 1947 he was hired by the Pan American. -
JFK Assianation
JFK the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.Kennedy was shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted also. -
Cival rights act & Voting rights act
The cival rights act outlawed most major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. At first the law was weak, but were during later years. Congress asserted its authority because the law was in the to United States Constitution, -
Vietnam War
THe War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies with the US -
Barbra Jordan Elected to US congress
Barbra Jordan was a leader and fighter of the cival rights act. She grew up learning about politics and then became a poltican. SHe was then the first African AMerican Girl to be elected as a Texas Seneet. She was then later on elected in the Us Congress -
1st Republican Governor of Texas Since 1870s
William Clements was the first Republican governor of Texas Will Clements being a Repbulcinan his wife was yet a democrate. In the election of 1978 Will had won the election and was the first republican to be govenor of texas
