Age of Oil
This person created the Rotary Drill Bit
Who is Howard Hughes?
This era was categorized by cattle drives in Texas.
This is the MOST important event in the Progressive Movement.
What is women's suffrage?
This organization was created by James Hogg to regulate railways in Texas.
What is the Texas Railroad Commission?
The Galveston hurricane hits the Texas coast on this date.
What is September 8, 1900?
The century when there was an economic boom in Texas because of oil
What is the 1900s
This was the biggest issue that cattle drives faced.
What are rustlers?
This group of women was formed in Texas to encourage the passage of the 19th Amendment.
What is the Texas Equal Suffrage Association?
This type of farming was introduced in Texas after the Civil War and led to workers living on the land where they worked.
What is tenant farming?
This is going to be the result of the weak economy on Texas farmers who expanded production in the 1930s.
What is crop prices fall?
This industry was the MOST impacted by the growth of oil in Texas.
What is the transportation industry?
This invention is going to close the open range and end the cattle drive era.
What is barbed-wire?
This was why the Progressive Movement believed education was important.
What is leading to a better economy in the future?
This advancement is going to officially bring an end to the Cattle Drive Era.
What is the railroad?
This many people are going to die in Galveston during the Great Storm.
What is 6,000?
This area is where the oil strike in 1901 took place in Texas
What is Spindletop?
Most cattle trails in Texas are created and used following this event.
What is the Civil War?
This movement is going to work for the improvement of life as a whole in Texas.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This invention is going to increase the production of cotton in Texas after the Civil War.
What is the cotton gin?
These states were the most affected by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. (List 3)
What are Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico?
This company drilled the first successful oil well in Texas in 1866.
Cattle drives in Texas were used for this purpose
What is to make more money?
This is something that the Progressive Party would support for workers.
What are better working conditions in factories?
This was passed in order to give companies land to build railroad tracks.
What is the Land Grant of 1876?
Galveston is going to build this in order to adapt to any future hurricanes that may come.
What is the seawall?