FLASH CARD Review Age of Oil

1. What type of innovation helped expand the oil industry in Texas ?

1. Technological

2. Following the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, what was the purpose of the 1903 seawall project ?

2. to help protect against the flooding caused by hurricanes

3. The increasing urbanization (more and larger cities) of Texas will help create more or cause an increase in ?

3. service-related fields (jobs) .

4. This industry was most impacted or affected by the contributions of Howard Hughes, Sr. ?

4. petroleum .

5. Due to the rapid industrial expansion during the early 20th century, the distribution of population within Texas changes as ?

5. the population of cities expanded rapidly

6. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane alters or changes economic development as major industries in Galveston ______ ________ to Houston.

6. moved inland

7. The First World War will change the lives of women in Texas as many enter the ____________?

7. workforce

8. The expansion of the Texas railroad system during the early 20th century results in the growth of these?

8. urban centers such as Houston and Dallas

9. The year of the Spindletop gusher?

9. 1901

10. Between 1900-1930 the smallest percentage of growth takes place in this part of Texas?

10. North

11. winning ratification (approval) of the 19th Amendment (voting rights for women) was the primary goal of this group?

11. Texas Equal Suffrage (voting) Association.

12. The major metropolitan centers in the early 1900s will be in the regions surrounding ?

12. Dallas and Houston

13. Supporting the rights of Spanish-speaking people was the original mission of this group ?

13. League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

14. The _______ movement in Texas wanted reforms to __________ agricultural workers ?

14. Populist, protect

15. Oil and gas deposits are found in ________ geographic areas of Texas?

15. most

16. The invention of the _________ will affect the agricultural industry by helping to produce larger crops and also helping to cause price-drops due to over-supply of certain crops.

16. tractor

17. Another name for a period of great profits followed by a downward trend (pattern) in an industry? ??

17. Boom and Bust cycle

Characteristic-age of oil 18. A characteristic of Texas during the Age of Oil is found in the _______ of ________ (city) areas? ?

Urban centers 18. growth, urban

19. The discovery of oil in Texas will cause _____________ to spring up all over rural Texas and change the physical landscape.

Boomtown 19. Boomtowns

WWI and WWII 20. Oil Industry boom—likely helped caused by _____________ crisis and conflict.

20. INTERNATIONAL crisis and conflicts WWI On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.

More wars 20. WW I 1914-1918 WWII The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation. 1937-1945. USA enters war in 1941.

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