Disaster Strikes Galveston
First modern city with electricity and telephones = ?
(Galveston)
January 10, 1901 = _____ and _______ discover the Spindletop Oil Field near Beaumont.
Higgins and Lucas_
The oil boom benefited the________ industry.
lumber
1900 =___________becomes a major city.
Dallas
________ = Spanish explorer who found a black tar like substance = _________.
Moscoso OIL
9-8-1900 = Galveston Hurricane = _____ hours and winds up to ____ miles per hour.
_12 120
_____ = First Major Oilfield in Texas producing over _______ barrels of oil per day.
_Spindletop 100,000
Oil Derricks, houses, stores made of ___________.
wood
_________had railroad connections, and became a center for banking, insurance and legal services, and retail industry giant.
_Dallas
________lamps used oil to provide light.
Kerosene_
Over ______ died and the city was in ruins, and was the worst _____________ in U.S. History.
6,000 natural Disaster in U.S. History.
Beaumont became a________ growing from 9,000 to ________ basically overnight.
boom town 50,000
Lumber worker's job was dangerous and many injuries ______________
_occurred
in ______ =__________ Store established.
1907 Neiman Marcus
1866 = Lynne T. _____ = drilled first ____ ____ in Texas = Oil Springs near ___________.
T. _Barret Major Oil __ _Well_ Nacogdoches
What was built around the city to aid against future hurricanes. It is over 17 feet high and more than 10 miles long?
(Sea Wall)
Hotels rented for _______hour shifts and barber chairs and pool tables became _____________________.
8 bed substitutes
Many lumber workers were paid in _____or____________to be used at the company stores and kept them in debt to the company store.
credit or scrip
America’s largest retail store and chose Dallas as it’s distribution center = ?
SEARS
he drilled the first successful well in pennsylvania
Edwin Drake
Rebuilt Galveston continued to serve as an entry point for _________________.
_Immigrants
which oil company was started as a result of spindletop ?
Texaco
wildcard
gain 500 points
_____________ population _______ from 1900-1910 and had over ____________people by 1920.
_Dallas doubled over 159,000
who probably used oil for medicine before oil was discovered
Native americans