Oil Industry
Largest oil reserve ever found in 1901.
What is Spindletop?
The years of Word War 1
What is 1914-1918
Made all production, sales, and distribution of alcohol illegal in America.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The purpose of the cattledrives.
What is to take cattle to better markets in the Northeast where they sold for more money.
The Battle of the Alamo is in which chapter
Chapter 11
Man who guessed there was oil under the hill
Who is Patillo Higgins?
Bonus
200 points!
Keeps employees from poor working conditions & helps them get proper wages.
What is a labor union?
It closed the open range forever.
What is barbed wire?
Spain built these communities for Native Americans
What are missions
A place with sudden economic and social growth due to a new business or discovery.
What is a Boomtown?
The countries on the Central Powers side
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey
Protesting against alcohol led by women in the 1900's
What is the Temperance Movement?
It motivated the railroads to be built deeper into Texas.
What is the cattle industry?
From 1862-1863 this act was passed to draft men in Texas for the Civil War
What is the Conscription Act
The year of the first major Texas oil gusher.
What is the year 1901?
The progressive changes made by the city of Galveston to keep them safe.
What is the building of a seawall.
Texas Secretary of State who fought for Women's Suffrage.
Who is Jane McCallum?
The Era of Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads
What are the years 1860-1890?
In July 1540 after five months of travel, this Spanish explorer reached a Zuni settlement that he thought must be Cíbola.
Who is Francisco Vasquez De Coronado
The amount of oil produced every day from Texas' largest oil gusher.
What was 80,000 barrels per day?
What is women went to work at industrial factory jobs while the men were away at war?
Making laws to support ordinary people like farmers, teachers, or local small business owners.
Inventor of Barbed Wire
Who is Joseph Glidden?
It is so hot and dry that few trees can grow there. The land is parched, and the air almost shimmers with an intense heat. What am I?
Mountains and Basins region