Modernizing Texas in an Age of Oil
1900-1929
The discovery of oil in Southeast Texas bolstered a boom that would be matched by few other industries for the next hundred years. Coupled with the mass production of the automobile a few years later, Texas oil would be here to stay. The birth of the Texas oil industry at Spindletop, near Beaumont, would create a whole new industrial age, as the uses of crude oil would multiply, seemingly, overnight creating new jobs, technologies and products.
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What was characteristic of the economic boom that developed in Texas as a result of the oil industry?
Spindletop Oil Gusher
January 10, 1901
Galveston Hurricane-1900
Galveston Sea Wall
Texas Railroad Commision
Women's Suffrage- The 19th Amendment
Texas Involvement in WWI
Populist and Progressive Movements
BIOGRAPHIES
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Anthony Lucas
Pattillo Higgins
Howard Hughes Sr.
James Hogg
So, what's the story?
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Skill Building Activities
Visual Vocab Unit 8-Cotton, Cattle Railroads and closing the Texas Frontier - 1866-1900.pdfGeneral Resources: Many of the wonderful resources found throughout this site are gathered from dozens of available links from other dynamic teachers, districts or organizations accessible on the web. The external resources are not the property of Lubbock I.S.D.