Geography
Spindletop is in this U.S. state. (tough one.)
Where is Texas?
The use of this form of transportation made the oil business necessary.
What is the automobile or car?
This one armed gentleman was determined that there was oil under the salt dome at Gladys.
Who is Patillo Higgins?
Petroleum is refined into these products.
What is gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane and other fuels.
Spindletop oil was struck on this year.
When is 1901?
Spindletop is near this Texas city.
Where is Beaumont?
When a town has a gold or oil rush, this effect happens as the population soars, like Kilgore in the 1930s.
What is the "Boomtown" effect?
Who is Anthony Lucas?
This is how deep they had to drill to strike the oil gusher in 1901.
What is 1,139 feet deep?
This East Texas city also has an oil history from the 1930s.
Where is Kilgore?
The Spindletop oil was found on this type of hill.
What is a salt mound?
These major oil companies were founded as a result of Spindletop.
What are Texaco and Gulf Oil?
The Guffey petroleum company is named after this person.
Who is James Guffey?
This is what they call an oil well when the oil gushes out of the ground quickly.
What is a "gusher?"
Grants and donations from oil and gas companies helped fund this public service in Texas for many years.
The small town that Spindletop was actually in was named this.
What is Gladys?
Spindletop created these other businesses near Beaumont.
What are storage facilities, pipelines, and major refining units
This former governor also was involved in the Spindletop oil marketing.
Who is Jim Hogg?
The Yount-Lee company drilled again and created a second boomtown rush in this year.
When is 1925?
This Beaumont based university has recreated the Gladys/Spindletop days with a museum.
What is Lamar University?
Splindletop is in this Texas county.
Where is Jefferson county?
These facilities are sometimes converted into huge refineries.
What are military bases?
This is what people searching for oil in unknown places are sometimes called.
What is a "wildcatter?"
Spindletop produced this much oil in 1902.
What is 17 million barrels of oil?
We learn about oil in this unit of Texas history.
What is unit 9 - Modernizing Texas in an age of oil?