Texas Oil- Spindletop

Beaumont Texas was popular town before Spindletop?

• True

• False

Before Spindletop, Texas was considered an

• Industrial state

• agricultural state

• technological state

First state to produce oil?

• Texas

• Washington D.C.

• California

• Pennsylvania

What were geologists looking for when they search for oil (on land)?

• Wet areas

• Pepper domes

• Salt domes

• Cracks in the ground

How much did the Hamel brothers get paid for drilling?

• $1 a foot

• $2 a foot

• $5 a foot

• $10 a foot

How many feet could the Hamel brothers have to drill before they had to quit?

• 12 feet

• 120 feet

• 1,200 feet

• 12,000 feet

What did they call the crude oil that came out of the ground?

• Mud

• Black gold

• Gas

• Dirt

What did people use to light lanterns before oil in the 1850's?

• Whale oil

• Dry grass

• Buffalo chips

• Kerosene

The discovery at Spindletop was worth about how much in today's money?

• 1 million

• 11 million

• 1 billion

• 11 billion

Before Spindletop, people who discovered oil were

• annoyed

• rich

• happy

• sad