7th GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES TECH BOOK
THE RISE OF CONSERVATIVISM IN TEXAS / PEOPLE & POLICIES
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Business-friendly policies in Texas politics:
2 - http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2014/05/13/texas-ranked-best-state-for-business-10th-year-in-a-row/
Funding education in Texas
1 - https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/khe01
Democratic Party of Texas
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/wap02
Hobby, Oveta Culp
1 - (newsreel): http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1452830?terms=oveta+culp+hobby
Immigration issues
1 - http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/262177?terms=immigration
McCallum, Jane
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmc07
Rayburn, Sam
1 - http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/247708?terms=sam+rayburn
Republican Party of Texas
1 - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/war02
2 - http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=94&sid=e208264f-855e-4dc7-9b21d9e418f178fd%40sessionmgr114&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=77654817 (A sort of anti-Republican rant on red policies—interesting point of view)
Secure Border Initiative of 2005
Secure Fence Act of 2006
Texas’s shift to Republican conservatism
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=23&sid=e208264f-855e-4dc7-9b21d9e418f178fd%40sessionmgr114&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=67054812 (discusses TX conservatism now, not in the 1970s)
Voter ID laws in Texas