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Texas History - Unit 8 - Review Game 4
Test Description: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) There was hardly any market for petroleum before the automobile was invented.
A
false
B
true
2) Spindletop was not the first successful oil field in Texas.
A
true
B
false
3) Men who did the difficult work in oil fields were called 'derricks.'
A
true
B
false
4) Production of oil at Spindletop soon began to drive the price of petroleum down.
A
false
B
true
5) In the early days, operators burned huge quantities of natural gas just to get rid of it.
A
true
B
false
6) Successful oil fields have been discovered in many parts of Texas.
A
false
B
true
7) In 1917, the state gave the Texas Oil Commission authority to regulate the oil business.
A
true
B
false
8) The Texas Company used a strategy called vertical integration to help it grow into a very large corporation.
A
true
B
false
9) It was a wildcatter who discovered the huge East Texas oil field in 1930.
A
false
B
true
10) As early as 1899, the Texas legislature began to try to protect groundwater from oil pollution.
A
true
B
false
11) The state began to regulate the spacing of oil wells in a field so that ...
A
fields would not be so quickly exhausted.
B
railways could safely pass between them.
C
fewer roughnecks would be injured by falling tools.
D
underground water would not be contaminated.
12) Wildcatting for oil was risky because ...
A
taxes would take most of what they made.
B
many independent operators went bankrupt after drilling a few wells.
C
although most wildcatters struck oil, some did not.
D
natural gas was dangerous and could catch fire.
13) Natural gas could not be used widely before the 1890s because ...
A
there was no way to get it to market safely.
B
city-dwellers were not allowed to use gas.
C
people were afraid to bring it into their homes.
D
kerosene was much cheaper.
14) The technological development that most assured the success of the oil industry was ...
A
steel bits that could drill through rock.
B
the automobile, with its internal combustion engine.
C
the diesel powered locomotive.
D
new methods of building pipelines.
15) Education in Texas has benefited from the oil industry because of ...
A
the Permanent University Fund, which receives royalties from oil.
B
all of the above.
C
philanthropy by Texans grown wealthy from oil.
D
taxes on oil and oil-related businesses.
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