Unit 9: Modernizing Texas in An Age of Oil

Texas Railroad Commission regulated and controlled the

• Gas Prices

• Oil Prices

• Food Prices

• Clothing Prices

He contributed to the petrolium industry.

• James Hogg

• Abraham Lincoln

• Howard Hughes, Jr.

• Howard Hughes, Sr.

Texas Equal Suffrage Association ratified 19th Amendment to allow...

• women to be in the military

• women to vote

• women to work

• women to own land

Texas urbanization caused job _________ in service-related fields.

• increase

• decrease

Boom and Bust

• downward and then upward trend

• upward and then downward trend

• No trend at all

• only downward trend

Correct Chronological Time: the end of prohibition; WW1; Galveston Hurricane; Amendment introduced for women's suffrage

• * the end of prohibition

  *WW1

  * Galveston Hurricane

  * Amendment introduced for women's suffrage

• * WW1

  * Galveston Hurricane

  * the end of prohibition

  * Amendment introduced for women's suffrage

• * Galveston Hurricane

  * WW1

  * Amendment introduced for women's suffrage

  * the end of prohibition

Texas Farmer Union, then Farmer's Alliance, then Grange

• True

• False

Former military post set up during WW1.

• Camp Austin

• Camp Karankawa

• Camp David

• Camp Bowie

Spindletop oil was announced...

• 1900

• 1901

• 1902

• 1903

Expanded the oil industry in Texas...

• technology

• books

• chemicals

• settlements