Study Tips: Second Semester Final Exam

Your Second Semester Final Exam will be from 7:55-9:50 A.M., Wednesday, 6/4/08. Carefully study the following.
1. Units 6, 7, & 8 in the Chapter Summaries packet. (Click if you need another copy.)

Note: The maps, chart, and pictures will be tested as multiple choice and matching. You will not have to write out the descriptions.

2. Maps & Chart
p. 399 - The West Texas Wars (final defeat of the Indians)
415 - Texas Cattle Trails (Gilded Age; notice that the cattle were rounded up in South Texas and "driven" overland to the railroad lines in Kansas, Missouri, etc.)
439 - Major Railroads in Texas, c. 1900 (Once there were more railroads in Texas, the cattle didn't have to be driven up the trails to the North.)
461 - Major Petroleum Discoveries in Texas, 1901-1929 (Spindletop wasn't the first oil discovery in Texas but it set off an oil "boom" that eventually made Texas the #1 petroleum state in the USA.)
501 - Dust Bowl during the Great Depression (1929-40)
519 - Texas in World War II (WW II greatly increased industrial production in TX.)
537 - Effects of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994) on the TX economy
597 - Chart: Ethnic Distribution, 2000 Census

3. Picture Identification
Unit 6 (Gilded Age, 1865-1900)
396 - Quanah Parker, Comanche chief
416 & 420 - White cowhands around a chuckwagon; African American and Mexican American cowhands
425 - Railroad w/ cotton bales, Houston, c. 1900
435 - Construction of present State Capitol, Austin, 1882-1888
Unit 7 (1900-1950)
464 - Galveston Hurricane, 1900
456 - Spindletop oil gusher, 1901
466 - Austin suffragists, 1918 (working for woman suffrage - the right to vote)
472 - Segregation sign in park: "MEXICANS AND NEGROES STAY OUT"
486 - "Ma" Ferguson - 1st woman governor of TX
517 - Audie Murphy and Doris "Dorie" Miller - WW II war heroes
528 - Hector P. Garcia - WW II hero, 1st Mexican American on U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
Unit 8 (1950-Present)
544 - LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) sworn in as president right after assassination of JFK, Nov. 22, 1963
545 - Black children were refused enrollment in Linfield Elementary, 1954
562 - Barbara Jordan - 1st African American woman in TX Senate---1st African American in Texas Senate since 1883---1st African American Texan/1st southern African American woman member of U. S. Congress
567 - Henry B. Gonzales - 1st Mexican American member of U. S. Congress
572 - 1970s cartoon: high oil prices holding U.S. people "hostage" (Sound familiar today???)
579 - Gov. Ann Richards (2nd woman TX governor), Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (1st TX member of U. S. Senate, one of our two current U. S. Senators, both Republicans), Cong. Mickey Leland (6-term Congressman and fighter against world hunger)
580 - Former TX Gov. & current U. S. Pres. George W. Bush