Oil and Reform in Texas Review

Who held the following beliefs?
-Preserve lands owned by small farmers
-Prevent abuses by railroad companies
-Increase the money in circulation 

• deomcrats
•  Ku Klux Klan
• Progressives     
• Republicans 

Which conclusion can best be drawn from this graph?  

• The economic well-being of a majority of Texans is dependent on world oil prices.
• The price of gasoline in Texas has fallen since 1970.
• The amount of oil produced in Texas has risen steadily since 1980. 
• “Boom and Bust” cycles have occurred in the Texas oil industry. 

What conclusion can you draw from the map?

• There was not much oil in East Texas
• Spindletop caused more people to look for oil in Texas
• Texas does not make money from oil
• Most oil strikes were in West Texas

Where do the following products come from? 
Plastics
Synthetic rubber
Polyester
Cosmetics

• rural areas
• urban areas
• oil industry
• progressive reforms

Draw a conclusion:
Oil exploration in Texas did not make major discoveries until the late 1890s and the first years of the next century. As more oilfields were discovered, a large industry began to take shape, including pipelines and oil refineries on the Gulf Coast. The Texas oil industry came into its own after Henry Ford began the mass production of automobiles. By 1929, there was one automobile for every 4.3 Texans. The success of the oil and natural gas industry helped diversify the state economy, which had previously been dominated by agriculture. —adapted from www.texaspolitics.utexas.edu/

• most Texans stayed in rural areas to work
• new jobs were created
• reformers  quit

What conclusion can you draw from the following?

After the Spindletop gusher, more than 500 Texas oil companies were operating at Spindletop. In the course of the 20th century, the oil industry spread to the northern, eastern and western parts of the state. Texas is the leading crude oil-producer in the nation, accounting for 22 percent of its crude oil production.

Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org

• cities population increased

• cities population decreased

What is suffrage?

• Being sad
• Right to vote
• Passage of the 17th Amendment
• The Galveston Hurricane

Boomtowns grew in population very rapidly after the discovery of...

• Lumber
• Gold
• Oil
• Reform

The discovery of oil at Spindletop in 1901 started the...

• Texas Oil Boom
• Bust cycle
• Great Depression
• Election of Lincoln

Railroad lines had what effect on cities populations that gained access to railroads?

• Population increase
• Population decrease