Dallas dominates Central Texas
1900 =__________becomes a major city.
Dallas
First modern city with electricity and telephones = ?
Galveston
________ = Spanish explorer who found a black tar like substance = _______.
Moscoso _OIL_
January 10, 1901 = ____ and _______ discover the Spindletop Oil Field near Beaumont.
Higgins Lucas
The oil boom benefited the____________ industry
Lumber
_________had railroad connections, and became a center for banking, insurance and legal services, and retail industry giant.
Dallas
9-8-1900 = Galveston Hurricane = ____ hours and winds up to ____ miles per hour.
12 120
_______ lamps used oil to provide light.
Kerosene
________First Major Oilfield in Texas producing over _______ barrels of oil per day.
Spindletop 100,000
Oil Derricks, houses, stores made of __________
wood
1907___________ Store established.
Neiman MARCUS
Over _____ died and the city was in ruins, and was the worst _____________ in U.S. History.
6,000 natural Disaster
1866 = ___ = drilled first ____ in Texas = Oil Springs near __________.
Lynne T. Barret Major Oil Well Nacogdoches
Beaumont became a_____ growing from 9,000 to ______ basically overnight.
boom town 50,000
Lumber worker's job was dangerous and many injuries _____________
occurred
America’s largest retail store and chose Dallas as it’s distribution center
Sears
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)
who drilled the first successful oil well in pennsylvania
Edwin Drake
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 scrip
_____ population ______ from 1900-1910 and had ___________people by 1920.
Dallas doubled over 159,000
Rebuilt Galveston continued to serve as an entry point for
Immigrants
who built a refinery at corsicana to process crude oil
Joseph s. Cullinan.
spindletop boosted overall economic development both within texas and______________
beyond the state
scrip money kept the workers in_______
Debt