Texas History - Unit 8 - Review Game 4 Question Preview (ID: 58703)


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The technological development that most assured the success of the oil industry was ...
a) the diesel powered locomotive.
b) new methods of building pipelines.
c) the automobile, with its internal combustion engine.
d) steel bits that could drill through rock.

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.

Wildcatting for oil was risky because ...
a) although most wildcatters struck oil, some did not.
b) taxes would take most of what they made.
c) natural gas was dangerous and could catch fire.
d) many independent operators went bankrupt after drilling a few wells.

The state began to regulate the spacing of oil wells in a field so that ...
a) underground water would not be contaminated.
b) fields would not be so quickly exhausted.
c) fewer roughnecks would be injured by falling tools.
d) railways could safely pass between them.

It was a wildcatter who discovered the huge East Texas oil field in 1930.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

As early as 1899, the Texas legislature began to try to protect groundwater from oil pollution.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

In 1917, the state gave the Texas Oil Commission authority to regulate the oil business.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

The Texas Company used a strategy called vertical integration to help it grow into a very large corporation.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

In the early days, operators burned huge quantities of natural gas just to get rid of it.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Successful oil fields have been discovered in many parts of Texas.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Men who did the difficult work in oil fields were called 'derricks.'
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Production of oil at Spindletop soon began to drive the price of petroleum down.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

There was hardly any market for petroleum before the automobile was invented.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Spindletop was not the first successful oil field in Texas.
a) true
b) false
c)
d)

Education in Texas has benefited from the oil industry because of ...
a) taxes on oil and oil-related businesses.
b) the Permanent University Fund, which receives royalties from oil.
c) philanthropy by Texans grown wealthy from oil.
d) all of the above.

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