Pattillo Higgins
Texas Gold El oro de Tejas
La Gran Depresión / The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Economic depression / Depresión económica
Plastic / Plástico
Lucas Gusher
Urbanization / Urbanización
Roaring twenties
Stock
He was a businessman who believed that there was oil underground at Spindletop.
This was a time period of economic prosperity.
Informal term Texans used for oil
Product made from oil
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture
a share of ownership in a company.
This was the name given to the oil gusher tapped into by miner, Anthony Lucas, hired by Pattillo Higgins
time period in which business slows down and the economy declines.
cities grow and societies become more urban
Economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world (1929-1939)
