The Effects of Oil in Texas

What year was oil discovered at Spindletop?

• 1866
• 1930
• 1901
• 1914

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

Which materials do we get from oil?

• saddles, boots, hats

• railroads

• cotton, corn, wheat

• gasoline, plastics, lip balm, lotion

What was an effect of the discovery of oil at Spindletop?

• Texas didn't change

• People came to Texas looking for oil and cities like Midland and Odessa grew

• the government took over all the oil companies

• Texans moved to rural areas to farm

• Another word for oil, representing the value of petroleum.

• A factory where oil is cleaned and turned into other products.

• A person who searches for oil.

• The framework over the oil well that holds the drilling machinery.

Oil is a

• Non-reusable resource

• Reusable resource

What was the biggest oil boom in the world?

• Spindletop
• Goatman's Bridge
• Galveston
• Beaumont

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

In the late 1920's, Texas produced more oil any other states in the country.

• true

• false