| A | B |
|---|
| September 8, 1900 | Galveston Hurricane |
| 8.7 Feet | Highest Elevation of Galveston in 1900 |
| Sea Wall | Project to protect Galveston from furture Storm Surges |
| Raised Elevation | Project to make Galveston less vulnerable to flooding |
| Lyne T. Barrett | Man who drilled first oil well in Texas |
| Nacogdoches | City where the FIRST oil well was drilled |
| Spindletop Hill | site of First oil gusher in Texas |
| Beaumont | oil boomtown in Southeast Texas |
| Texas Company | Texaco |
| Humble Oil Company | Exxon |
| allows Houston to be large port | Ship Channel |
| Lumber | Industry that made money from the oil boom |
| Dallas | biggest city in Central Texas |
| Neiman Marcus | Department Store founded in Dallas |
| Commmission | form of Government in Galveston after 1900 |
| 18th Amendment | Outlawed the making and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Pennsylvania | 1st successful U.S. oil well dug here |
| scrip | money that could be spent only in company-owned stores |
| poll tax | practice used to keep minorities and the poor from voting |
| primary | type of election used to determince a party's candidate |
| WCTU and Anti Saloon League | groups that worked to pass prohibition law |
| Progressivism | change |
| "Where 17 Railroads meet the sea" | Houston |
| Founder of Corsicana Oil Refinery | Joseph Cullinan |
