Oil Boom

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What is petroleum?

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natural oil

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Why did Pattillo Higgins first start drilling for oil under Spindletop Hill?

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He wanted to find a new fuel source for making bricks.

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Who was Captain Anthony F. Lucas?

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He was hired by Patillo Higgins to help find oil.

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Why was oil called "black gold"?

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Oil was very valuable like gold is.

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What was the name of the first major oil well in Texas?

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Spindletop

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Why did Beaumont become a center of industrialization in Texas?

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Oil drillers rushed to the region around Spindletop to see if they could find more "Black Gold".

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What is an oil refinery?

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a factory that cleans and processes oil into products such as gasoline or kerosene

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As more oil is produced, the price generally becomes -

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cheaper

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Following the spectacular discovery of oil at Spindletop, what happened? Options: only business people tried to get rich in the oil industry, boomtowns in Texas soon sprang up, working conditions for oil workers improved, the price of property in the area decreased.

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boomtowns in Texas soon sprang up

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Spindletop, TX was the _____________________.

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largest oil discovery in 1901