1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Reconstruction in Texas ended in the 1870s with the loss of Radical Republican control. What political party took back over at that time? | Democrats | 2. The Texas government knew that it would not be able to overturn the 14th and 15th amendments. What did they create to ensure that the African American community was "separate but equal?" | Jim Crow Laws | 3. In what year did Texas rewrite it's final state constitution? | 1876 | 4. What was the famous court case that took place in 1896 that set the precedent of "separate but equal?" | Plessy vs. Ferguson | 5. What Texas law enforcement group had to step up to deal with lawlessness during the 1870s due to growth in urban areas? | Texas Rangers | 6. What was the main goal of the temperance movement? | reduce or halt the drinking of alcohol | 7. How did refrigeration cars help the growth of meat packing plants in Texas? | could slaughter cows in state and ship out to sell directly | 8. What can you make with cottonseeds? | cooking oil, salad, oil, mayo, cosmetics, livestock feed | 9. What are company towns? | towns built around and for the industries in those areas | 10. What did WCTU stand for? | Woman's Christian Temperance Union | 11. What is the suffrage movement? | women's fight for the right to vote | 12. How did many railroad companies get land in Texas for the building of railways? | land grants | 13. What city would you have found the first telephone in Texas? | Galveston | 14. What is a monopoly? | exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity | 15. Why was the Farmers' Alliance created? | fought against unfair credit practices and railroad monopolies | 16. How many miles of railways were their in Texas by 1900? | just under 10,000 | 17. What state funded transportation improvement plan was in place in the late 1800s? | there wasn't one | 18. Urbanization was taking place in Texas near and around what type of industries during the early 1900s? | oil industries, lumber and railroads | 19. What is scrip and how would this keep people from leaving a job? | pay; it forced people to work for one company because this form of payment will not work in towns outside of their industry town | 20. What is progressivism? | movement that recognized the need for improvements in business and society | 21. What did Governor James S. Hogg help establish in Texas to set rates and watch over railroad practices? | Texas Railroad Commission | 22. Where was the first Oil Well in Texas? | Oil Springs | 23. What oil well spouted out about 100,000 barrels of oil before it was finally capped off? | Spindletop | 24. What political group came about from the Farmers' Alliance? | Populist Party | 25. What was the oil well that was closest to Beaumont? | Spindletop | 26. How does oil move from wells to refineries underground? | pipelines | 27. What opened in 1914 that helped move goods in and out of Texas by water? | Houston Ship Channel | 28. Name three social changes that took place because of the discovery of oil. | economic, growth, urbanization, etc. | 29. How did the oil industry affect the lumber industry? | need for derricks, buildings, houses | 30. What is the difference between farm (rural) pay and oil work (urban) pay? | predictable vs. unpredictable | 31. When oil prices fell it meant that oil and asphalt were cheap. How did this affect the auto industry? | highway construction, automobiles, roadside diners, gas stations, auto dealerships, insurance companies, motels, etc. | 32. What is petroleum the result of? | decomposition of dead plants and animals over millions of years | 33. How long does it take for social change to take place? | no clear time; over time | 34. In what year did James S. Hogg become governor of Texas? | 1890 | 35. How does oil money change colleges on a social level? | urbanization, better education, cultural changes, etc. | 36. What caused divorce rates in Texas to rise during the 1920s and 1930s? | discovery of oil - people moved away from family homes to work | 37. Even though minorities were not making a lot of money during the oil boom by working unskilled types of jobs, they were able to leave rural areas, thus breaking the cycle of ____________? | debt | 38. How did roads become a problem in oil towns? | they would become bogs and create an unsanitary situation | 39. What is the tall tower that held the drilling equipment while it worked into the land called? | Derrick | 40. What was the population of Wink, Texas in 1920? | didn't exist |
Reconstruction in Texas ended in the 1870s with the loss of Radical Republican control. What political party took back over at that time?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 40)
The Texas government knew that it would not be able to overturn the 14th and 15th amendments. What did they create to ensure that the African American community was "separate but equal?"&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 40)
In what year did Texas rewrite it's final state constitution?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 40)
What was the famous court case that took place in 1896 that set the precedent of "separate but equal?"&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 40)
What Texas law enforcement group had to step up to deal with lawlessness during the 1870s due to growth in urban areas?&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 40)
What was the main goal of the temperance movement?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 40)
How did refrigeration cars help the growth of meat packing plants in Texas?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 40)
What can you make with cottonseeds?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 40)
What are company towns?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 40)
What did WCTU stand for?&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 40)
What is the suffrage movement?&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 40)
How did many railroad companies get land in Texas for the building of railways?&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 40)
What city would you have found the first telephone in Texas?&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 40)
What is a monopoly?&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 40)
Why was the Farmers' Alliance created?&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 40)
How many miles of railways were their in Texas by 1900?&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 40)
What state funded transportation improvement plan was in place in the late 1800s?&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 40)
Urbanization was taking place in Texas near and around what type of industries during the early 1900s?&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 40)
What is scrip and how would this keep people from leaving a job?&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 40)
What is progressivism?&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 40)
What did Governor James S. Hogg help establish in Texas to set rates and watch over railroad practices?&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 40)
Where was the first Oil Well in Texas?&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 40)
What oil well spouted out about 100,000 barrels of oil before it was finally capped off?&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 40)
What political group came about from the Farmers' Alliance?&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 40)
What was the oil well that was closest to Beaumont?&choe=UTF-8
Question 25 (of 40)
How does oil move from wells to refineries underground?&choe=UTF-8
Question 26 (of 40)
What opened in 1914 that helped move goods in and out of Texas by water?&choe=UTF-8
Question 27 (of 40)
Name three social changes that took place because of the discovery of oil.&choe=UTF-8
Question 28 (of 40)
How did the oil industry affect the lumber industry?&choe=UTF-8
Question 29 (of 40)
What is the difference between farm (rural) pay and oil work (urban) pay?&choe=UTF-8
Question 30 (of 40)
When oil prices fell it meant that oil and asphalt were cheap. How did this affect the auto industry?&choe=UTF-8
Question 31 (of 40)
What is petroleum the result of?&choe=UTF-8
Question 32 (of 40)
How long does it take for social change to take place?&choe=UTF-8
Question 33 (of 40)
In what year did James S. Hogg become governor of Texas?&choe=UTF-8
Question 34 (of 40)
How does oil money change colleges on a social level?&choe=UTF-8
Question 35 (of 40)
What caused divorce rates in Texas to rise during the 1920s and 1930s?&choe=UTF-8
Question 36 (of 40)
Even though minorities were not making a lot of money during the oil boom by working unskilled types of jobs, they were able to leave rural areas, thus breaking the cycle of ____________?&choe=UTF-8
Question 37 (of 40)
How did roads become a problem in oil towns?&choe=UTF-8
Question 38 (of 40)
What is the tall tower that held the drilling equipment while it worked into the land called?&choe=UTF-8
Question 39 (of 40)
What was the population of Wink, Texas in 1920?&choe=UTF-8
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