From Spindletop to Industry Lesson-3.0

Match

Match the following

• A town that grows quickly due to pros

• A town that grows quickly due to pros

• A liquid fossil fuel used to make gas

• A factory where crude oil is processe

• Growth of factories and manufacturing

Spindletop

Boomtown

Petroleum

Refinery

Industrialization

• Spindletop

• Boomtown

• Petroleum

• Refinery

• Industrialization

Multiple Choice

What important event happened at Spindletop in 1901?

• A gold rush began

• The first Texas oil gusher was discovered

• The first railroad was built in Texas.

• A new university was founded

Multiple Choice

What companies were created because of the Spindletop oil boom?

• McDonald's and Walmart

• Texaco and Gulf Oil

• Shell and Amazon

• Exxon and Target

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A​ ​ ​

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is a town that grows quickly because of sudden prosperity.

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Petroleum is used to make products like​ ​

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Reorder

Reorder the following

• Oil was discovered at Spindletop.

• Beaumont became a boomtown.

• Oil exploration increased.

• New jobs were created.

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Drag and Drop

Oil helped Texas cities like ​ ​

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and ​

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grow into industrial centers.​ ​

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Houston

Dallas

Austin

San Antonio

El Paso

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Oil was transported across Texas using​

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and​

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refineries

pipelines

trucks

barges

railroads