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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 10 of 13

Reform & Civil Rights

Movements and leaders

What your child practices

Populism, progressivism, women's suffrage, labor reform and the late-20th-century conservative movement; civil rights and equal rights movements and leaders (LULAC, Hector P. Garcia, James L. Farmer Jr., Lulu Belle Madison White, Oveta Culp Hobby, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jane McCallum) and court cases such as Smith v. Allwright, Sweatt v. Painter and Hernández v. Texas; Texas leaders such as Barbara Jordan, Henry B. González and Sam Rayburn; parties, interest groups and a free press.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 7.7(C); 7.7(D); 7.16(A); 7.16(B); 7.17(A); 7.17(B) · reform and civil rights movements in Texas, points of view in a democracy, and Texas leaders

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Reform movements: Populists (farmers wanting railroad rules and fair credit), Progressives and women’s suffrage (Texas primaries, 1918).
  2. Civil rights leaders and groups like LULAC and Hector P. Garcia’s American GI Forum fought discrimination.
  3. Court cases such as Sweatt v. Painter (1950) opened schools. Barbara Jordan broke barriers in the Texas Senate and US House.

Example: What did the Supreme Court rule in Sweatt v. Painter (1950)? Heman Sweatt was refused by a law school because he was Black. The Court said the University of Texas had to admit him. Answer: The University of Texas had to admit Heman Sweatt to its law school

Reform & Civil Rights in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 10 of 13 in 7th grade Social Studies, after Oil & the Modern Economy and before Texas Places & People.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Raymond L. Telles was…

    • a cattle drive boss
    • a Spanish explorer
    • a Republic president
    • the first Mexican American mayor of El Paso

  2. Question 2

    Labor reform movements in Texas worked for…

    • child labor
    • lower wages
    • longer workdays
    • safer workplaces, shorter hours and better pay

  3. Question 3

    A poll tax was…

    • a fee to vote that kept many poor and minority Texans from voting
    • a tax on oil
    • a tax on cattle
    • a sales tax

  4. Question 4

    After the 1900 hurricane, Galveston created…

    • the first oil refinery
    • a monarchy
    • the Texas Navy
    • the commission form of city government

  5. Question 5

    Lulu Belle Madison White was…

    • a Republic president
    • an astronaut
    • a suffrage opponent
    • an NAACP leader in Houston who fought segregation

  6. Question 6

    John Nance Garner ("Cactus Jack") was…

    • a buffalo soldier
    • the inventor of condensed milk
    • a Texas Ranger captain
    • a Texan who served as vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt

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