Chapter 26 – BOOM AND BUST

Section 1 - The Transition to Peace

DEMOBILIZATION and LABOR UNREST

• Demobilization – moving from a wartime to a peacetime economy

• Soldiers needed jobs, often displacing females and African Americans

DEMOBILIZATION and LABOR UNREST

• Created an economic boom as farms and factories increased production

• Led many Texans to move to cities for high-paying jobs

STEPS TAKEN TO PROTECT CIVIL RIGHTS OF TEXANS FOLLOWING THE WAR

• African Americans opened the first Texas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in El Paso in 1915

• Mexican Americans organized the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Corpus Christi in 1929

CONTROVERSY OVER “MA” FERGUSON

• Accusations that she and her husband sold pardons

• Other accusations that she awarded highway contracts to friends

“Ma” Ferguson