Spindletop and Oil

What is Spindletop?

• Where oil was first struck in Texas?

• Site of the largest Cattle Ranch in Texas

• Location of the finally battle during the Civil War

• Most popular Cowtown

These were the 2 men that were the first to discover oil at Spindletop.

• Anthony Lucas and Anthony Higgins

• Portillo Higgins and Portillo Lucas

• Anthony Lucas and Portillo Higgins

• Tortilla Higgins and Anthony Lucas

The discovery of oil lead to the growth of what other major industry?

• Manufacturing

• Meat Packing

• Shipping

• Automobile

Many of these naturally began to appear around the sites where oil was discovered.

• Farms

• Waterways

• Boomtowns

• Eroded Land

Spindletop Gusher did all the following except:

• Pop. Of Beaumont explodes

• Texas Economy fails

• Cities grow around new oil refineries

• Auto industry grows

What is a wildcatter?

• Adventure seekers

• Group that regulated the process and sale of oil

• Businessmen that came to Boomtowns to start a new business

• Oil seekers who took great risks by drilling in areas not known to have oil

This created the increased demand for gasoline.

• Boomtowns

• Automobiles

• Wildcatters

• Cattle Drive

1. In what year was oil discovered at Spindletop?

• 1901

• 1800

• 1905

• 1910

l of the following were benefits in Boomtowns as a result of oil discovery EXCEPT:

• Small towns began to flourish

• People became wealthy

• Oil production had no restrictions

• Major oil companies were started

As the number of wells grew this declined

• Crime

• City Growth

• Production

• Laws