Texas Railroads, Oil & Gas

Who's knowledge and determination led to the Spindletop?

• Anton Gusher

• Stephen F. Austin

• Arthur Spindle

• Pattillo Higgins

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

How did the fast train engines help boost Texas' economy?

• Quickly producing large amounts of cotton

• quickly carrying large amounts of people out of Texas

• quickly carrying large amounts of natural gas to the West

• quickly carrying a large amount of goods to markets in the East

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

• railroad

• cattle drives

• sharecropping

• fisheries

Where were oil fields NOT found in Texas?

• the Panhandle

• the West

• the Southeast

• the North

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

• cattle ranching

• railroads

• sharecropping

• natural gas

Which did NOT create boomtowns?

• natural gas

• railroads

• crude oil

• sharecropping

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

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