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Term | Definition |
Corsicana | First significant oil reserve discovered |
East Texas and Gulf Coast | Most of the oil/gas discovered between 1900-1940 |
Spindletop | First oil boom in Texas 1901 |
West Texas | Where most of the oil strikes were in the 1920s |
Great Depression | Brought on by overproduction and Stock Market crash |
Overproduction and what it caused | Too much produced causing prices to fall –government had to regulate |
Lusitania | British ship with Americans aboard-Germans sank it-cause of WW1 |
Zimmerman Telegram | Sent by Germany to Mexico-promised to help get Mexican land back-cause of WW1 |
How Depression affected Texans | Did not suffer as much in the beginning-Few invested in Stock Market-few industrial workers- already poor before Depression |
Dust Bowl | Drought brought on by over-plowing and no rain |
Columbus M. Joiner | discovered oil reserve in East Texas which was largest in world as of 1930 |
Anthony Lucas | hit oil at Spindletop |
Francisco “Pancho” Villa | general in Mexican Revolution-became angry at the U.S. for recognizing his opponent |
FDR | U.S. President who introduced the New Deal to bring the U.S. out of Depression |
Center for oil companies? | Houston |
Correct sequence | Spindletop, WW1, Stock Market crash, Dust Bowl |
Boom | Time of good economy causing boom towns when oil discovered |
Derrick | framework over an oil well to support drilling equipment |
Geologist | scientist-studies origin/history of earth |
Wildcatter | person who drills for oil in an area not known for oil |
Allies WW1 | Great Britain-France-Russia |
Central Powers WW1 | Germany-Austria-Hungary-Ottoman Empire |
New Deal | FDRs plan to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression |
WPA | program putting people to work during the Depression that built and improved buildings |
Black Tuesday Oct 29,1929 | Stock Market Crash |
FDIC | created to regulate banks, keeping people from losing money |
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