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Head of the Weather Beuro, Isaac Cline
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Hurricane Hit Galveston
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Progressive Era
One night on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, a hurricane hit and destroyed the whole city. This caused the whole city to be built and the city also got a new government. The new government inspired other cities government to copy it. Then the law banned alcohol so there can be less deaths around the world. In the 19020s women were finally given the right to vote. Then prohibition started from 1918-1931. Legislative reforms were passed in areas of labor, child labor, education, prisons, banking. -
Spindletop Struck Oil
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Oil Discovery
When oil was founded at Spindletop on January 10, 1901, it changed history as we know it. The oil caused hundreds of boomtowns to appear over Texas. By 1931, Texas had 3,600 well. The oil was now being used for everything. There was so much oil that they just left the oil on the field. Continued.. -
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Oil Discovery Continued
There were many effects to the oil boom. The economic effect and social effects were population growth in many prosperous cities. There was so much money that they built more schools, and they paved more of the roads. There was so much oil that they reduced the price of an oil barrel. -
Oil Companies Grew in Large Numbers
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Economic and Social Affects of Oil Boom
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Oil Cause Boomtowns in TX
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World War I Continued
The Germany sank a passenger ship right off the coast of Ireland and it had some war supplies. This enraged the Americans. Then Germany sent a letter to Mexico asking if they would help fight in the war and the British intecepted the letter and told America. This lead us into the war. They fought for about 2 years and then the Treaty of Versailles was passed and it ended the war. -
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World Was I
Then the war started when austria-hungary declared war on Serbia. Then there was two sides the Allied Forces( France, Great britain, Russia, Italy, Serbia, Belgium, and several other countries) and the Central Forces( Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria). The United States said they didnt was anything to do with the war. When the United States didnt see Francisco Vill as the leader of Mexico he crossed the border to Texas and started raiding villages and homes. Continues...... -
World War 1 Starts
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Lusitania was Sunk
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Pancho Villa Attacks and Raids Villages and Homes
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Zimmerman Telegraph
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U.S. Joins the War
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Legislative Reforms Passes
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Railroads are improved By Legislative Reforms
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Banned Alcohol
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Women Get the Right to Vote
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Treaty of Versailles
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More than 1/4 of the Countries Workers Lost Their Jobs
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Stock Market Crashed
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The Great Depresssion
One week, a lot of farmers went to the bank and got a lot of loans. Then the farmers never paid the banks back. This meant that banks were going to go out of business. This is how the Great Depression started. This was a boom and a bust cycle. There was a lot of money and then the money just went away and the stock market crashed. Continued -
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The Great Depression Continued
After about a couple of years the “New Deal” happened and this made there be more jobs for people that lost their jobs during the Great Depression. About the time the “New Deal” happened there was a ginormous dust storm that affected Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico and this was a huge decrease in crops for about 10 years. -
Investors Sold Their Stocks
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Texas had 3,600 Wells
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The New Deal
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Dust Bowl
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Germany Invades Poland
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World Was II
The war started when Germany invaded Poland. When this happened the US said they wanted to stay out of it because they were still in a depression but we did support Britain. Then Japan came out of nowhere and bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. We didn’t expect this because we were still in a peace treaty with Japan. Continued.... -
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World Was II Continued
This is what brought us into the US. Then D-Day happened and it was the turning point of the war. This is when the Allied Forces invaded France along the beaches of Normandy. About a year after D-Day the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima and a couple days later the US dropped another nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. Then Japan surrenders after the second nuclear bomb was dropped and Germany had already surrendered before the atomic bombs. -
Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
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Japan Surrenders
