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Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Chapter Eleven: Oil Changed Texas [Pdf]
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. This module looks at the history of the oil...
Digital History
Digital History: Black Gold: The Oil Frontier
A brief overview of how the gusher at Spindletop in 1901 spurred the giant oil industry in America in the early twentieth century.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Esc 20: How Did Spindletop Spark a Tx Industry That Impacted the Nati [Pdf]
The student objective is to explain the political, economic, and social impact of the Spindletop incident and the oil industry on the industrialization of Texas.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Oil and Gas Industry
This informational text piece has everything students want to know about the history of the Texas oil industry beginning in the sixteenth century to modern times.
A&E Television
History.com: Spindletop
Learn about Texas' booming oil industry that grew up around the oil field at Spindletop, and how many of the major oil companies in America, including Gulf Oil, Texaco, and Exxon, trace their origins there.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Texas Almanac: Oil/texas: A Cultural History
Read the synopsis and story of how the Spindletop gusher, a key event in the history of the Texas economy, began the United States oil industry.
Other
Mr. Palm: Texas Oil and Gas Industry
A teacher's class notes on the development and impact of the oil and gas industry on the industrialization and urbanization in Texas in the early twentieth century.