Texas Railroads, Oil & Gas

What is urbanization?

• the increase of people working and living in a single area; becoming a city

• the increase of people working and living in the country far from others; farm life

• the increase ban on large cars in small areas

• the decrease of a population from a single area

What is industrialization?

• the building of factories next to large plantations

• the development of sharecropping on a large plantation

• the development of less agriculture and more manufacturing industries in an area

• the development of cattle ranching where railroads stop at the ranch

What did railroads, oil and gas all increase in Texas?

• urbanization

• sharecropping

• small farm management

• ruralizing

Where were oil fields NOT found in Texas?

• the Panhandle

• the West

• the Southeast

• the North

What is a negative effect of drilling for oil and natural gas?

• solar flares

• low tides

• rain

• pollution

What new technology was fast and carried a lot of items at once?

• railroad

• cattle drives

• sharecropping

• fisheries

Who's knowledge and determination led to the Spindletop?

• Anton Gusher

• Stephen F. Austin

• Arthur Spindle

• Pattillo Higgins

To become rich, get a job, light lamps, fuel cars are all reasons people were -

• emigrating out of Texas

• riding on railways to the Northeastern part of the U.S.

• drilling for oil and natural gas

• leaving Europe

Why is the Spindletop important?

• created the greatest oil boom ever

• was the largest discovery of natural gas

• was the fastest train in Texas

• grew more crops than any other plantation inTexas

Which did NOT create boomtowns?

• natural gas

• railroads

• crude oil

• sharecropping