Age of Oil
Spindletop is located in this Texas city.
What is Beaumont?
This is the term for the belief that American settlers were destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Who is Pineda?
This person was the general of the Mexican Army and president of Mexico during the Texas Revolution
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
In this location Japan attacked the US, which led to the US joining WWll.
What is Pearl Harbor?
These places turned oil into gasoline.
What are refineries?
This industry grew as the railroads grew.
What is the cattle industry?
This a the name of a French explorer how came down the Mississippi river to explore.
Who is La Salle?
This woman survived the Battle of the Alamo and was told by Santa Anna to spread the news of the battle.
Who was Susanna Dickinson?
These two dictators took over the nations of Italy & Germany and made a pact to support one another in their expansionist ambitions.
Who were Mussolini and Hitler?
Prior to the early 1900's this was the major source of energy.
What is coal?
This caused the profit from the sale of cotton to expand.
What is The Cotton Gin?
Early explorers came to The Americas for these 3 things.
What is God, Glory, and Gold
In March of 1836 Texas delegates met at Washington-on-the-Brazos with the goal of establishing what.
What is The Texas Declaration of Independence?
These countries made up the Allied Powers.
Who were France & the United Kingdom (including England, Scotland & Ireland)?
People who searched for oil by drilling holes in the ground were called this.
What is Wildcatters?
This word comes from Spanish "la reate" meaning to catch or fasten.
What is a lariat?
This French explorer claimed all the lands along the Mississippi River and called the area Louisiana
Who is La Salle
This politician and leader was selected to lead the Texas Army at the Convention of 1836.
Who was Sam Houston?
He was the President of the United States when the US entered WWll.
Who was President Roosevelt?
Who is Lyne T Barrett?
In the 1820's this person helped bring cotton seeds to grow in Texas and sell for profit.
Who is Stephen F. Austin
This Tribe took in Explorer Alvav Nunaz Cabeza de Vaca and taught him how to trade.
Who is Karankawa?
This person was in command of the volunteers at the Battle of the Alamo. He died fighting from his hospital bed.
Who was James Bowie?
This country had signed a non-aggression pact with Hilter, but when Hitler attacked them, they joined the Allied Powers.
Who was the Soviet Union?