HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Many Texans moved from rural areas to cities to work in booming industries
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Many Texans began to enroll in new deal programs
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Texas became more involved with the stock market due to oil becoming more valuable
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -WWI had a great impact on Texas and the need for oil. It also impacted the need for change in our society: the Reform Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Texans also helped by planting extra “war gardens.” Texan farmers devoted new areas of their land for additional food crops.
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas farmers felt the first impact of the war through cotton prices. In July 1914 cotton exchanges closed for three months and cotton prices for the year fell to an average of 7.22 cents per pound, 40 percent less than the previous year (see COTTON CULTURE).
Detailed explanation-3: -New Deal programs offered some relief, putting people to work building parks, highways, and public buildings and helping to improve farmland and agricultural practices. The legacy of these programs can be seen across today’s Texas. Workers built bridges, dams and roads.
Detailed explanation-4: -Because of wartime demands, people migrated to the state in increasing numbers-as many as 450, 000 in less than four years. Since industrial jobs were plentiful in or near such cities as Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth, Texans saw rapid urbanization, along with its accompanying benefits and evils.