1. Chapter 26 – BOOM AND BUST
Section 1 - The Transition to Peace

2. DEMOBILIZATION and LABOR UNREST
• Demobilization –
moving from a
wartime to a
peacetime
economy
• Soldiers needed
jobs, often
displacing females
and African
Americans

3. 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

4. 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

5. CONTROVERSY OVER “MA” FERGUSON
• Accusations that she and
her husband sold
pardons
• Other accusations that
she awarded highway
contracts to friends
“Ma” Ferguson