The Age of Oil -- TX History

After the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, what were built to help protect the city from future hurricanes?

• battleships

• skyscrapers

• seawalls

• nothing has been built

In the Age of Oil, the _________________ is one characteristic of this era.

• less industrialization

• growth of cattle drives

• less job opportunities

• growth of urban areas (cities)

Spindletop is

• where oil was 1st discovered

• where the first carnival ride was invented

• the name of a cattle trail

• the last battle of the Civil War

The nickname for young men that looked for ways to get oil out the ground.

• mad dogs

• wildcatters

• spitfires

• oil raccoons

What year did Spindetop occur?

• 1920

• 1914

• 1901

• 1900

This protects Galveston from hurricane tidal surges (big waves of water)

• harbor

• seawall

• island

• lighthouse

This industry changed East Texas' economy the most in the early 1900s.

• oil

• space

• cotton

• cattle

Which city gained Galveston's big businesses after the Galveston's Hurricane of 1900?

• Dallas

• Houston

• El Paso

• none of the above

How is Spindletop historically important?

• This is where the frontier began

• Buffalo soldiers were sent there

• Cattle were traded there

• The Tx oil industry started there

This helped the Texas oil industry (grow as a business)

• changes in transportation

• crop failures

• taxes on the oil exports

• water shortages