Texas Oil Boom

dark, thick, liquid fossil fuel

from which kerosene is made

• natural gas

• derriks

• fossil fuels

• petroleum

fuel formed underground

from plant or animal remains

• fossil fuels

• derricks

• natural gas

• oil

towers that support oil-drilling

equipment, which could be seen

in Corsicana in the 1890s

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• derricks

• wildcatters

1901 oil strike that marked the

beginning of the Texas oil boom

• Beaumont strike

• Houston strike

• Spindletop strike

• Santa Rita No.1 strike

The drillers who struck oil in Corsicana had been drilling for

• water

• petroleum

• natural gas

• oil

By 1902 the price of oil had hit an all-time low of

• one cent a barrel

• three cents a barrel

• seven cents a barrel

• nine cents a barrel

Some Texas oil companies were owned by ____________________________, independent oil operators who searched for new fields.

• entrepreneurs

• philanthropist

• wildcatters

• cowboys

North Texas rancher W. T. Waggoner complained that he had been drilling only for ________________________ when he struck oil.

• water

• petroleum

• Dr. Pepper

• natural gas

Geologists had claimed that there was very little oil in East Texas north of the ______________________________.

• Rio Grande River

• Gulf Coast

• Nueces River

• Panhandle

Which of the following Texas towns grew from 9,000 residents to some 50,000 residents within two years of the Spindletop strike?

• Lubbock

• Brownsville

• Beaumont

• El Paso