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Assignment:
Please choose ONE of the following essay prompts to answer.
1. If industrial development in Texas derived from the processing of agricultural products and natural resources, how did industrial development vary in different regions within the state?
2. How did declining agricultural opportunity, increasing urbanism, and traditional racial and ethnic divisions in Texas society intersect in the Populist movement?
3. Why was Ferguson impeached?
4. Evaluate the impact of agrarian and Populist reform demands on the liberal and Progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the early 20 century.
5. Who joined the Klan, and why?
6. Evaluate the appeal of the Klan in its 1920s revival; why did it both rise and collapse so suddenly?
7. How did the state government under Governars Sterling, Ferguson, Allred, and O' Daniel respond to the challenge of the Great Depression?
8. What role did the New Deal play in relieving Texas of econamic distress?
9. What are the continuities between the traditional one-party state divided between liberal and conservative Democrats and an emerging two-party state divided between liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans? What is distinct?
10. Analyze the role of racial integration and civil rights on the divisions between Texas political parties.
11. Explain the rise and success of the Republican Party in Texas from the mid 1970s to mid 1990s.
12. Can Texas sustain its distinctive heritage as it becomes more globally connected, nationally integrated, urban, and ethnically diverse?