Due All Summer Long: An Enjoyable and Rewarding Vacation!
Once again, students, it was an honor and a pleasure learning with you in IDS 7 this year. Thank you for your hard work, participation, insights, and cooperation. All best wishes to you now and always.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Study Tips: Second Semester Final Exam
Your Second Semester Final Exam will be from 7:55-9:50 A.M., Thursday, 6/4/09. Carefully study the following.
1. Units 6, 7, & 8 Chapter Summaries. .
2. CHART: Time Periods of Texas History - You can get a copy here.
3. . 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 (After there were more railroads in Texas, the cattle didn't have to be driven up the trails to the North. The train rides were much more comfortable even though the final result was still unpleasant--for the bovines, at least.)
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
1. Units 6, 7, & 8 Chapter Summaries. .
2. CHART: Time Periods of Texas History - You can get a copy here.
3. . 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 (After there were more railroads in Texas, the cattle didn't have to be driven up the trails to the North. The train rides were much more comfortable even though the final result was still unpleasant--for the bovines, at least.)
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