Texas Oil Boom Vocabulary

A type of oil that is the source for gasoline.

• Petroleum

• Reserve

• Refinery

• Petrochemical

A framework or tower that supports a drill over a deep hole.

• Derrick

• Reserve

• Wildcatter

• Petroleum

A town that experiences sudden growth in population and business.

• Boomtown

• Refinery

• Derrick

• Reserve

An independent oil driller.

• Wildcatter

• Petrochemical

• Derrick

• Petroleum

Rubber that comes from chemicals rather than from plants.

• Synthetic Rubber

• Petroleum

• Reserve

• Wildcatter

The Oil boom in Texas created what?

• Jobs, higher incomes, a Good Economy

• Tenant Farming, Sharecropping

• Poor Economy and Loss of Jobs

What caused rural Texas towns to become boomtowns?

• discovery of oil
• discovery of railroads
• cattle industry
• Windmills

Oil companies gave money to education and colleges in Texas grew.

• True

• False

A ______ is a building equipped to refine or process products such as oil, metals, or sugar.

• factory

• refinery

• derrick

• boomtown

A ______ is a town that experiences sudden growth in population and business

• oil town

• ghost town

• boomtown

• white collar city