Texas Railroads, Oil & Gas

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

What did a town have to have in order to be successful in the late 1800s?

• oil fields

• goats, chickens, and pigs

• large ranches

• train station

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 is sharecropping?

• buying land and sharing it with a neighbor so you both have food to eat

• renting an oil field and drilling for oil then repaying the owner with oil

• renting land & supplies from a wealthy landowner and repaying him with crops but never making enough to get out of debt

• buying land next to a well dug by the railroad station

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

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

• railroad

• cattle drives

• sharecropping

• fisheries

Where was a large amount of natural gas found in Texas causing the town to boom?

• Beaumont, TX

• Fort Worth, TX

• Amarillo, TX

• Spindletop, TX

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 industry increased the growth of free enterprise in other industries in Texas?

• cattle ranching

• railroads

• sharecropping

• natural gas

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

• solar flares

• low tides

• rain

• pollution